El imposible testimonio: Celan en Derrida
The imposible testimony: Celan in Derrida
Abstract (en)
This article wants to present some problems related to the testimony:
the truthfulness of the testimony, the comparison of the methodic and
scientific method (which require proofs) and the knowledge of testimony
(that does not have proofs and is based on a bet on the faith and
oath of what is testified), the impossibility of representing the irrepresentable after Auschwitz and the bet on keeping the memory in spite
of the existing inability to represent what happened at concentration
camps. These problems will be dealt through Celan’s poetry, who speaks
and gives his testimony with the purpose of preserving memory, without
pretense of truth and representing the irrepresentable, against oblivion
and artistic representations without limits; and through Derrida’s bet
because no one can testify for another.
Keywords: testimony, witness, scientific knowledge, certainty, truth,
Celan, Derrida, memory, the irrepresentable.
Abstract (es)
El presente escrito quiere poner de presente algunos problemas referentes al testimonio: la veracidad del testimonio, la comparación del conocimiento metódico y científico (que exige pruebas) y el conocimiento del testimonio (que no tiene pruebas y se basa en una apuesta por la fe y juramento de lo que se testimonia), la imposibilidad de representar lo irrepresentable después de Auschwitz y la apuesta por mantener la memoria a pesar de la incapacidad que existe para representar lo ocurrido en los campos de concentración. Estos problemas van a ser tratados por medio de la poesía de Celan, quien habla y da su testimonio con motivos de preservar la memoria, sin pretensiones de verdad y de representar lo irrepresentable, en contra del olvido y las representaciones artísticas sin límites; y por medio de la apuesta de Derrida porque nadie puede testimoniar por otro.
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