Testimony and the Rhetoric of Persuasion
The codification of witnessing in the sense of its truthfulness is accompanied and preceded by the act of persuasion. Weitin discusses Jacques Derrida's theory of witnessing in The Force of Law, a text in which he reads Walter Benjamin's Zur Kritik der Gewalt. This approach considers ethic...
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| description | The codification of witnessing in the sense of its truthfulness is accompanied and preceded by the act of persuasion. Weitin discusses Jacques Derrida's theory of witnessing in The Force of Law, a text in which he reads Walter Benjamin's Zur Kritik der Gewalt. This approach considers ethical questions first of all, such as the question of justice--and thus operates under the way for an ethics. |
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