Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility

by Robert Harvey

Book Overview

Witnessness posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett's "untranslatable" text, Worstward Ho, alongside Dante's Purgatorio and Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved and If This Be a Man. Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441124241
• ISBN13: 9781441124241
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"