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Description

1 online resource (162 pages).

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Series

SUNY series, literature ... in theory

SUNY series, literature ... in theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Contents

Entanglement in stories (Wilhelm Schapp) -- Storytelling (Walter Benjamin) -- Surviving for others (Hannah Arendt).

Summary

In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasche reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specific harm that has been done to them as human beings, on the other. Distinguishing storytelling from testifying and providing information, Gasche asserts that the utter senselessness of the violence inflicted upon them is what inhibited survivors from making sense of their experience in the form of tellable stories. In a series of readings of major theories of storytelling by three thinkers - Wilhelm Schapp, whose work will be a welcome discovery to many English-speaking audiences, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt - Gasche systematically assesses the consequences of the loss of the storyteling faculty, considered by some an inalienable possession of the human, both for the victims' humanity and for philosophy.

Subject

Schapp, Wilhelm, 1884-1965.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Schapp, Wilhelm, 1884-1965.

Storytelling -- Philosophy.

Storytelling in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.

PHILOSOPHY / General.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Storytelling in literature.

Storytelling -- Philosophy.

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Other Form:

Print version: Gasché, Rodolphe. Storytelling : the destruction of the inalienable in the age of the Holocaust. Albany : SUNY Press, c2018 162 pages SUNY series, literature ... in theory. 9781438471457 (DLC) 2017054958

ISBN

9781438471471 (electronic book)