On Testimony, Sincerity and Truth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389392 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Plant (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-50 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1353/prg.2007.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W4253036356, W1979554083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In much recent cultural theory there has been a noticeable turn to testimonial discourse, perhaps especially in the context of finding ways of bearing witness to human suffering, tragedy and trauma.While this shift toward allowing others to speak 'in the first person' provides an important and powerful methodological tool, appealing to first-person testimony is also a hazardous enterprise. (It is, after all, especially difficult to raise questions about the authenticity of visibly pained testimonies.) Drawing on a number of disparate philosophers and writers, in this article I explore some of the central epistemological and ethical problems surrounding testimony. More specifically, I argue that the distinction between truth and sincerity is of fundamental importance here, and as such any unreflective methodological reliance on testimonial discourse is at best misconceived, at worst irresponsible
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Sincerity · Social science · Sociology · Testimonial · Witness · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |