"Ja sam uszedłem, by ci o tym donieść", czyli filozoficzne dawanie świadectwa (przeł. Anna Ziębińska-Witek)
“I Have Eluded – to Report to You About It”: Giving a Testimony Philosophically (trans. Anna Ziębińska-Witek)

Summary/Abstract: In the centre of his considerations, the author places a concept of philosophical testimony-giving with reference to the Holocaust. Starting off from classical biblical texts, he makes subject to analysis the very motif of cultural testimony-giving and metaphorical meanings of the words witness and testimony. An afterthought is offered on this occasion on how homicide is, or should have been, marked in texts by so-called ‘professional’ philosophers, that is, those for whom considerations on the human condition are – as it would seem – the crucial issue. The author makes attempts at explaining the scientists’ faint response to the Shoah, rendering subject to analysis the general philosophical culture, its tendencies to generalising things while escaping from unit historic events. In what ways a historic event may be utilised conceptually and methodologically, is shown by Lang using the specific example of Hannah Arendt’s study Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil.

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