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The Phenomenology of Testimony
From Inner Truth to Shared World
Series: - Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume: 27
Testimony is a central topic in contemporary philosophy, with a vast array of disciplines, from epistemology to testimonial literature, demonstrating considerable interest in it. Among these approaches, phenomenology and hermeneutics offer exemplary ways of capturing essential dimensions of testimony that are often overlooked. This volume explores the fundamental issues at stake in such a hermeneutical phenomenology, by developing new insights into the defining role testimony holds in shaping personal identity and human reality in general. By examining how testimony is engaged in the creation of a common world that includes singular experiences, the eleven essays collected here provide thought-provoking questions for other concerned disciplines, including history, sociology, and ecology.
Gert-Jan van der Heiden is professor of metaphysics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published on continental philosophy with an emphasis on hermeneutic phenomenology, including The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony (2020).
Paul Marinescu is a researcher at the âAlexandru Dragomirâ Institute for Philosophy, Romania. He coedited several journal issues and collective volumes devoted to the phenomenology of history, memory, violence, and testimony, including âThe Articulation of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in Paul RicÅurâ (2023).
Paul Marinescu is a researcher at the âAlexandru Dragomirâ Institute for Philosophy, Romania. He coedited several journal issues and collective volumes devoted to the phenomenology of history, memory, violence, and testimony, including âThe Articulation of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in Paul RicÅurâ (2023).
Contents
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: on the Stakes of a Phenomenology of Testimony
âGert-Jan van der Heiden and Paul Marinescu
1 The Temporality of Witnessing
âCristian Ciocan
2 A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Witnessing and Testimony: on Being-There-With and Being-Gathered-Around
âGert-Jan van der Heiden
3 The Experience of Testimony: from the Individual to the Collective
âPaul Marinescu
4 Portrait Painting, Photography, and the Subliminal Testimony of the Environing Life-World
âJeffrey Andrew Barash
5 Testimony as Articulation of Natality: an Arendtian Approach to Bearing Witness
âIleana BorÅ£un
6 Arendtâs Phenomenology of Identity
âAoife McInerney
7 Summoning Witnesses: Arendtâs Practice of Quoting in Her Last and Unfinished Book Project, The Life of the Mind
âWout Cornelissen
8 Testimony of an Exile from Language within Languageâor How to Read Genet with(out) Sartre
âDorothée Legrand
9 Testimonial Literature and the Meaning of the Past: the âOtherâ Narratives of the Gulag in Womenâs Memoirs
âLovisa Andén
10 Witnesses of Fake History
âRoland Breeur
11 Topical Issues in Testimony: Literature, Digital Communication, and Ecology
âJean-Philippe Pierron
Index
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: on the Stakes of a Phenomenology of Testimony
âGert-Jan van der Heiden and Paul Marinescu
1 The Temporality of Witnessing
âCristian Ciocan
2 A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Witnessing and Testimony: on Being-There-With and Being-Gathered-Around
âGert-Jan van der Heiden
3 The Experience of Testimony: from the Individual to the Collective
âPaul Marinescu
4 Portrait Painting, Photography, and the Subliminal Testimony of the Environing Life-World
âJeffrey Andrew Barash
5 Testimony as Articulation of Natality: an Arendtian Approach to Bearing Witness
âIleana BorÅ£un
6 Arendtâs Phenomenology of Identity
âAoife McInerney
7 Summoning Witnesses: Arendtâs Practice of Quoting in Her Last and Unfinished Book Project, The Life of the Mind
âWout Cornelissen
8 Testimony of an Exile from Language within Languageâor How to Read Genet with(out) Sartre
âDorothée Legrand
9 Testimonial Literature and the Meaning of the Past: the âOtherâ Narratives of the Gulag in Womenâs Memoirs
âLovisa Andén
10 Witnesses of Fake History
âRoland Breeur
11 Topical Issues in Testimony: Literature, Digital Communication, and Ecology
âJean-Philippe Pierron
Index
The bookâs main audience is scholars working in the fields of phenomenology and continental philosophy, but through its positioning it may be of wide interest to any academic working on testimony, as well as â especially the final essays â to historians and literary researchers dealing with testimonial literature. The book is important for academic institutes, libraries and specialists.