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By Shari Goldberg

ISBN-10: 0823254771

ISBN-13: 9780823254774

The 19th century used to be a time of striking attunement to the unstated, the elusively current, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony reveals in such attunement a helpful rethinking of what it capacity to come across the reality. It argues that 4 key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henry James—open up the area of the witness by way of articulating quietude’s declare at the clamoring world.

The premise of quiet testimony responds to pressing questions in severe thought and human rights. Emerson is introduced into dialog with Levinas, and Douglass is taken into account along Agamben. but the e-book is steeped within the highbrow weather of the 19th century, during which speech and which means may exceed the limits of the well-known human topic. during this context, Melville’s characters might learn the elements, and James’s may perhaps spend a night with lifeless companions.

By following the trail through which ostensibly unremarkable entities come to voice, Quiet Testimony indicates new configurations for ethics, politics, and the literary.

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