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Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust
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 storytelling faculty, considered by some an inalienable possession of the human, both for the victims' humanity and for philosophy.
Persuasion, reflection, judgment: Ancillae Vitae
In: Studies in Continental thought
Persuasion (Aristotle) -- A truth resembling truth -- Probability or necessity -- Logos, topos, stoikheion -- Reflection (Heidegger) -- Breaking with the primacy of the theoretical -- The genesis of the theoretical -- Beyond theory: theoria, or watching over what is still to come -- Judgment (Arendt) -- The space of appearance -- The wind of thought -- A sense of the world
Deconstruction, its force, its violence: together with "Have we done with the empire of judgment?"
In: SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy
The force of deconstruction -- The possibility of deconstruction -- The violence of deconstruction -- Have we done with the empire of judgment?
Europe, or the infinite task: a study of a philosophical concept
In: Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Views and interviews: on 'deconstruction' in America
In: Contemporary European cultural studies
Ecce homo ou du corps écrit
In: Documents de travail et pré-publications. Nr. 57: Serie D
Die hybride Wissenschaft: zur Mutation des Wissenschaftsbegriffs bei Emile Durkheim und im Strukturalismus von Claude Lévi-Strauss
In: Texte Metzler 26
Patočka on Europe in the aftermath of Europe
In: European journal of social theory, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 391-406
ISSN: 1461-7137
Jan Patočka's elaborations in 'Europe after Europe' concern a kind of irrationalism and nativism proper to European thought that has prohibited the embryonic core of the idea of Europe, namely, the renewed Socratic-Platonic motif of the 'care of the soul' in Christian Europe, to unfold its full potential. The article investigates a further 'irrationalism' that narrows the universalist thrust of the idea of Europe, precisely, by conceiving of it in terms of the Greek concept of an idea. This article draws on the inner resources of the notion of the idea in order to recast Europe as a Europe beyond the idea.
The Exercise of Deconstruction
In: The Oxford literary review: OLR ; critical analyses of literary, philosophical political and psychoanalytic theory, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 209-211
ISSN: 1757-1634
Ecce Homo or the written body
In: The Oxford literary review: OLR ; critical analyses of literary, philosophical political and psychoanalytic theory, Band 7, Heft 1-2, S. 3-24
ISSN: 1757-1634