Other Testaments: Witness, Survivor and the Marrano in Derrida’s Poetics of Testimony Cover Image
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Inne testamenty: świadek, ocalały i maran w poetyce świadczenia Derridy
Other Testaments: Witness, Survivor and the Marrano in Derrida’s Poetics of Testimony

Author(s): Agata Bielik-Robson
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Epistemology, History of the Holocaust, Hermeneutics, Philosophy of History
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: testimony; Derrida; Marranism; secret; faith; trust;

Summary/Abstract: Bielik-Robson analyses Derrida’s poetics and politics of testimony in the light of his frequently used figure of the Marrano or crypto-Jew. Derrida compared the two forms of being a Jewish witness – a survivor or a Marrano – but he provided no detailed account of this distinction. Bielik-Robson fills this gap by showing that to trust a witness and to have faith in the religious sense are closely related.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 18-41
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish