{"product_id":"witnessness-beckett-dante-levi-and-the-foundations-of-responsibility-9781441124241","title":"Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Harvey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitnessness\u003c\/i\u003e posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett's \"untranslatable\" text, \u003ci\u003eWorstward Ho\u003c\/i\u003e, alongside Dante's \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e and Primo Levi's \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIf This Be a Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose \u003ci\u003eWitnessness\u003c\/i\u003e are built upon notions whose names (e.g. dimness, lessness) take inspiration from Beckett's unique and precise vocabulary. Harvey explores the particular experience of the witness as recounted in Dante and Levi-for signs of a general, common, and innate witness-like attitude that protects the other and that we see expressed in Beckett's penultimate prose piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088454770839,"sku":"9781441124241","price":4574.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781441124241.webp?v=1767267377","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/witnessness-beckett-dante-levi-and-the-foundations-of-responsibility-9781441124241","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}