'TO SEE GORGONA' (ON GIORGIO AGAMBEN'S BOOK) ('Zobaczyc Gorgone' (O ksiazce Giorgio Agambena))

• Authors: Ubertowska Aleksandra
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses a book by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben 'Remnants of Auschwitz'. The authoress concentrates on three sets of issues, constitutive for the questions raised in the book: the issue of a specifically understood testimony, the issue of corporality (the figure of the 'Moslem'), and the issue of language (as well as of the subject), memoirs from the camp. The text is concluded with a polemic with Agamben's

Keywords

EN

AGAMBEN GIORGIO; CAMP LITERATURE (PRIMO LEVI); HOLOCAUST

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 527-535
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ubertowska Aleksandra

• Aleksandra Ubertowska, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Zaklad Polskiej Literatury Wspólczesnej, ul. Wita Stwosza 55, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA059821