Natan Elgabsi is a Researcher in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. Elgabsi’s research is focused on the philosophy of history, existential and moral philosophy, the philosophy of reading and writing (hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrativism), memory studies, and the ethics of the human sciences. Elgabsi is co-editor of Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach (2023).

• Acknowledgements, Note on Translations and Transliterations, Preface, "Always Historicize!": Discovering Responsibility in Literary Culture 1. Prehistoric Time, Preliterate Mind: Anthropological Violence between Writing and History 2. Bearing Witness to Absent Others: Toward an Existential Ethics of Reading and Writing 3. Historiography as a Graveyard in the Letters: From Reification to Responsible Commemoration 4. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Narrating Stories About the Past 5. The Suffering of Real People: An Ethical Critique of Narrative Aesthetics 6. What is Responsibility? Ethical, Existential, and Transgenerational Dimensions 7. A Judgment of Evil Deeds: Posterity’s Interpretation and the Afterlife of Events, To Be a Reader of Other Generations, List of References, Index.

Natan Elgabsi is a Researcher in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. Elgabsi’s research is focused on the philosophy of history, existential and moral philosophy, the philosophy of reading and writing (hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrativism), memory studies, and the ethics of the human sciences. Elgabsi is co-editor of Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach (2023).

• Acknowledgements, Note on Translations and Transliterations, Preface, "Always Historicize!": Discovering Responsibility in Literary Culture 1. Prehistoric Time, Preliterate Mind: Anthropological Violence between Writing and History 2. Bearing Witness to Absent Others: Toward an Existential Ethics of Reading and Writing 3. Historiography as a Graveyard in the Letters: From Reification to Responsible Commemoration 4. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Narrating Stories About the Past 5. The Suffering of Real People: An Ethical Critique of Narrative Aesthetics 6. What is Responsibility? Ethical, Existential, and Transgenerational Dimensions 7. A Judgment of Evil Deeds: Posterity’s Interpretation and the Afterlife of Events, To Be a Reader of Other Generations, List of References, Index.

Natan Elgabsi is a Researcher in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University. Elgabsi’s research is focused on the philosophy of history, existential and moral philosophy, the philosophy of reading and writing (hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrativism), memory studies, and the ethics of the human sciences. Elgabsi is co-editor of Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach (2023).

• Acknowledgements, Note on Translations and Transliterations, Preface, "Always Historicize!": Discovering Responsibility in Literary Culture 1. Prehistoric Time, Preliterate Mind: Anthropological Violence between Writing and History 2. Bearing Witness to Absent Others: Toward an Existential Ethics of Reading and Writing 3. Historiography as a Graveyard in the Letters: From Reification to Responsible Commemoration 4. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Narrating Stories About the Past 5. The Suffering of Real People: An Ethical Critique of Narrative Aesthetics 6. What is Responsibility? Ethical, Existential, and Transgenerational Dimensions 7. A Judgment of Evil Deeds: Posterity’s Interpretation and the Afterlife of Events, To Be a Reader of Other Generations, List of References, Index.