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Yet it is not clear that " pure " testimony is impossible . The swearing of a purgatory oath or the undergoing of an ordeal - the quintessential forms of testimony in medieval Europe - occur ex- clusively in the present .
Yet it is not clear that " pure " testimony is impossible . The swearing of a purgatory oath or the undergoing of an ordeal - the quintessential forms of testimony in medieval Europe - occur ex- clusively in the present .
Síða 166
Any reflection on testimony , memory , the archive and archivization has to disarm itself before such an impossible injunction . And this command orders all our thinking , ethics , writ- ing , tradition , religion and culture .
Any reflection on testimony , memory , the archive and archivization has to disarm itself before such an impossible injunction . And this command orders all our thinking , ethics , writ- ing , tradition , religion and culture .
Síða 226
The witness is that person who gives testimony about something to which it turns out to be impossible to testify , but to the degree that " the impossible " is not the ultimate attri- bute of Holocaust , but rather the subject's ...
The witness is that person who gives testimony about something to which it turns out to be impossible to testify , but to the degree that " the impossible " is not the ultimate attri- bute of Holocaust , but rather the subject's ...
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