Testimony/Bearing Witness

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Converging the Yet-Separate Theoretical Discourses of Testimony Studies

Part I: Historical perspectives

1 The Presence of the Witness

2 The Debate on Testimonies Concerning Miracles and History in Seventeenth- to Eighteenth-Century France

3 Enlightenment Perspectives on the Problem of Testimony

Part II: International sites

4 Testimony in Light of the Khmer Rouge Trials: Reflections of a Judge Involved

5 The Armenian Case: Bearing Witness by Mediation of the Second or Third Generation

6 Testimonies in the Spaces of Promoting and Opposing Violent Extremism

Part III: Holocaust: paradigm and intersection of survivor testimony and philosophical epistemology

7 The Power and Perils of Being Believed

8 The Testimony of the Traumatic Witness: The Tension Between the Therapeutic Act and the Loss of Words and Their Meaning

9 Analysing Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Certainties, Scepticism, Relativism

10 Probing the Limits of Visual Testimonies: A Cinematic Approach to Different Modes of Testimony from the Warsaw Ghetto in Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished

Part IV: Visibility and media history of testimony

11 Like a Thief in the Night: Witnessing and Watching

12 Remembrance of Things Past: Testimony and Imagination

13 The 1,001 Reflections of an Ongoing Catastrophe: From Visual to Cinematic Testimony

Part V: Epistemology of testimony

14 Epistemic Dependence and Trust: On Witnessing in the Third-, Second- and First-Person Perspectives

15 The Philosophy of Testimony: Between Epistemology and Ethics

16 Is Testimony an Epistemically Distinguished Source of Knowledge?

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