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Edith Wyschogrod animates such questions through the passionate figure of the "heterological historian." Realizing the philosophical impossibility of ever recovering "what really happened," this historian nevertheless acknowledges a moral imperative to speak for those who have been rendered voiceless, to give countenance to those who have become faceless, and hope to the desolate. Wyschogrod also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as photographs, film, and the Internet, which bring with them new constraints on the writing of history and which mandate a new vision of community. Drawing on the works of continental philosophers, historiographers, cognitive scientists, and filmmakers, Wyschogrod creates a powerful new framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Wyschogrod, Edith
- ISBN13 9780226920450
- ISBN10 0226920453
- Pages 280
- Published 1997
An ethics of remembering. History, heterelogy and the nameless others
- Author Edith Wyschogrod
- Publisher CHICAGO
- ISBN 9780226920450
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