Beth Benedix is a professor of religious studies, world literature and community engagement and in her book Ghost Writer (A Story about Telling a Story), she explores the ethics of narrative. We covered some of the ethical issues of storytelling in episode 38. Today, we’re going to dive into a sort of parallel topic: the ethics of encounter. Beth’s book is a story about telling a story, but it’s also a story about encounters: Joe Koenig’s brushes with death, his experience of the Holocaust; Beth’s meetings with Joe; and Beth’s repeated encounters with Joe’s taped testimony. We’ll also discuss my encounter with this work.
These encounters are important to draw out, because they highlight the ways in which our behavior, our lives are not isolated practices in perfection. Our encounters with each other and with the stories we tell are going to affect the way we think through ethics.
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Show Notes:
- Beth Benedix
- Beth is a professor, scholar and writer, but she also runs an amazing organization called Castle Arts
- Ghost Writer: A Story about Telling a Holocaust Story
- More information about the ghetto Joseph Koenig (Koenigheit) lived in with his father Theodore in Częstochowa, Poland
- Paul Celan, “Speak, You Also”
- Elizabeth Anderson on episode 30
- Care ethics
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
- Flashback
- Holocaust Museum
Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo.
- “Kalsted” (variation) by Blue Dot Sessions
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