Witness

Art As Witness is an invitation for professors, researchers, clergy, educators, students, and activists to creatively integrate the arts in theology and religious studies for a pra...

What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and th...

In the preface to Stanzas, Agamben unambiguously provides the setting for his engagement with Friedrich Hölderlin: The name of Hölderlin – of a poet, that is, for whom poetry was a...

Chapter 1 uses a historical, and notably unconventional, example of witnessing to demonstrate how bearing witness involves sometimes radical and purposeful rhetorical invention (or...

Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights t...

This chapter argues that the very prospect of witnessing in late modern public culture is defined by countervailing imperatives: the publicly lauded ideal that bearing witness to t...

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and ...