Hi, sorry to butt in but i was interested in what you had to say here, very much.
You've probably come across Giorgio Agamben... the main point I remember from his "Remnants of Auschwitz" is that even survivors cannot describe the Holocaust, seeing as they were exceptions, rather than the rule. The "truth" of the Holocaust is therefore only known to those who are dead.
If we take the "truth" argument to its fullest extent, then there is no hope for writing or human expression whatever - because if we can't relate to another person's reality, then there is no purpose in trying to express through art. And the result is that we must all recognise ourselves as perpetually isolated, perhaps.
I say, screw that. But then I'm a modernist and a humanist and an agnostic all rolled into one, and I like to think that the imagination can take us to places that have their own truth, and that we can share in that. Maybe.
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Date: 2007-06-11 10:23 am (UTC)You've probably come across Giorgio Agamben... the main point I remember from his "Remnants of Auschwitz" is that even survivors cannot describe the Holocaust, seeing as they were exceptions, rather than the rule. The "truth" of the Holocaust is therefore only known to those who are dead.
If we take the "truth" argument to its fullest extent, then there is no hope for writing or human expression whatever - because if we can't relate to another person's reality, then there is no purpose in trying to express through art. And the result is that we must all recognise ourselves as perpetually isolated, perhaps.
I say, screw that. But then I'm a modernist and a humanist and an agnostic all rolled into one, and I like to think that the imagination can take us to places that have their own truth, and that we can share in that. Maybe.
</ butt-in :) >