Jorge SemprĂșn and the tale of history
This thesis examines the relationship between Spanish author and Buchenwald deportee Jorge SemprĂșn and his philosophy of history. Firstly we examine SemprĂșn's testimonies and the means he adopts to tell his traumatic past. Within this area a few of the questions that we shall consider are: of what importance is historical fidelity in the narration of the Blanchotian âlimit-experience'? What effect does the establishment of a literary canon of testimony have on a diasporic author such as SemprĂșn? How and with what effect does SemprĂșn articulate notions of self and subjectivity? How does SemprĂșn write the death of the other? Secondly from this anterior view onto history we will then switch to a future orientated anticipatory gaze and examine the relationship between SemprĂșn and his philosophy of history: what is it that history has to tell us? How should the concentration camps be remembered now? What should happen to the physical remains of the camps? How, do we in the present, respond to the onerous burden of the past? In exploring these questions this thesis will show that Jorge SemprĂșn forces us to reconsider not only our relationship with the past, for the sake of both the present and the future,
Herman, Gregory Jan
Historiography
Jorge SemprĂșn and the tale of history. This thesis examines the relationship between Spanish author and Buchenwald deportee Jorge SemprĂșn and his philosophy of history. Firstly we examine SemprĂșn's testimonies and the means he adopts to tell his traumatic past. Within this area a few of the questions that we shall consider are: of what importance is historical fidelity in the narration of the Blanchotian âlimit-experience'? What effect does the establishment of a literary canon of testimony have on a diasporic author such as SemprĂșn? How and with what effect does SemprĂșn articulate notions of self and subjectivity? How does SemprĂșn write the death of the other? Secondly from this anterior view onto history we will then switch to a future orientated anticipatory gaze and examine the relationship between SemprĂșn and his philosophy of history: what is it that history has to tell us? How should the concentration camps be remembered now? What should happen to the physical remains of the camps? How, do we in the present, respond to the onerous burden of the past? In exploring these questions this thesis will show that Jorge SemprĂșn forces us to reconsider not only our relationship with the past, for the sake of both the present and the future,
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