Suffering, Displacement, and the Circulation of Knowledge about Nazi Atrocities
“‘We suffered and can understand and orient this material.’ This quote suggests that suffering serves a key function in the circulation of knowledge because it can make sense of what might otherwise be disorienting material. The notion that suffering has epistemic value is progressive. Yet, this statement was made in 1948, not by a philosopher but by a Polish-Jewish survivor of Nazi persecution, Luba Melchior, who was a refugee in Sweden.”