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Author Gasché, Rodolphe, author

Title Storytelling : the destruction of the inalienable in the age of the Holocaust / Rodolphe Gasché
Published Albany : State University of New York, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 150 pages)
Series SUNY series, literature in theory
SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
Contents Entanglement in stories (Wilhelm Schapp) -- Storytelling (Walter Benjamin) -- Surviving for others (Hannah Arendt)
Summary In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché 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, Gasché 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 - Gasché 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Schapp, Wilhelm, 1884-1965.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
SUBJECT Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Schapp, Wilhelm, 1884-1965 fast
Subject Storytelling -- Philosophy
Storytelling in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Storytelling in literature
Storytelling -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438471471
1438471475