Prehodnotenie etiky porovnávania
Rethinking the ethics of comparing
Author(s): Dorothy FigueiraSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Comparative Study of Literature, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Ústav svetovej literatúry, Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Alterity studies; Comparative Literature; Ethics of literary engagement; Hermeneutics; Paul Ricoeur; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Emanuel Levinas;
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the ethical dimensions of the Other, as it is configured in the discipline of Comparative Literature, particularly as it is practiced in the US in the recent proliferation of critical schools that claim to engage alterity in a respectful and inclusive fashion. It begins with a summary of the philosophical employments of the Other dating from the Greeks through Existentialism. It then investigates the role of the Other in the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur and the historiography of Michel de Certeau. Examinin ghow these conceptions of alterity have impacted upon literary studies, attention isthen turned to the work of Emmanuel Levinas. How can the thoughts of these various thinkers contribute to and/or reanimate current theoretical approachs to “reading” the Other that appear to have become the goal of literary studies today?
Journal: World Literature Studies
- Issue Year: 11/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 70-80
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Slovak