POINTS OF VIEW: “To see Gorgona“ (on Giorgio Agamben’s book) Cover Image

PUNKTY WIDZENIA: „Zobaczyć Gorgonę” (o książce Giorgio Agambena)
POINTS OF VIEW: “To see Gorgona“ (on Giorgio Agamben’s book)

Author(s): Aleksandra Ubertowska
Subject(s): History
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Holocaust; Giorgio Agamben; camp literature (Primo Levi)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses a book by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz. The author 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 Agambena’s theses.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 527-535
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish