Testimony

Kahn, Paul W.

ISBN 10: 1725284308 / ISBN 13: 9781725284302

Published by Cascade Books, 2021

Seller Inventory # E-9781725284302-4-2

Synopsis:

On her seventy-fifth birthday, the author’s mother confessed to an affair more than three decades past. His father’s response was unforgiving. Her need to confess met his limitless rage. She acted out of love; he sought revenge. Their battle consumed everything and everyone around them. In the middle of this struggle, she was diagnosed with cancer. Two years later, she died.

Testimony is a son’s memoir of this struggle. Paul Kahn finds here a story of the twentieth century, beginning with poverty in the Depression and immigration from Hitler’s Germany. He follows his father’s experience of the war and his return with PTSD. He traces his parents’ movement through the turbulent 60s. More than a study of twentieth-century culture, Testimony is a philosophical inquiry into the possibility of faith in a secular age. History, philosophy, and theology flow together as Kahn finds in his parents’ lives the resources for a series of essays on the nature of truth, memory, death, and faith. Testimony is most of all a meditation on love in a time in which the very possibility of faith is constantly put to the test.

About the Author: Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School. He earned his PhD in philosophy and his JD at Yale University. He served as a law clerk to Justice White in the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of a dozen books on constitutional theory, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies. He has published numerous articles--scholarly and popular--on contemporary events.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Testimony
Publisher: Cascade Books
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very good