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Embodying “you”: Levinas and a question of the second person
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October 13, 2005
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In this paper I examine the effects of considering Levinas’s philosophy of the relation to the Other as a relation to a second person “you,” rather than to a third person “he.” To think of the Other as “you” sheds further light on the ethical encounter that Levinas terms the “Saying:” it provokes us to think of the event of reading a literary text as an event of the Saying. In the dynamic potential of the literary text to instantiate an “I” and a “you” (which is to say, an addresser and an addressee) each time it is read, and in ways that cannot be exhaustively predicted or epistemologically saturated in advance, the artwork effects an open yet responsive encounter with the Other.
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Published Online: 2005-10-13
Published in Print: 2005-10-26
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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- (Re)thinking modality: A text-world perspective
- Embodying “you”: Levinas and a question of the second person
- Interpreting marked order narration: The case of James Joyce’s “Eveline”
- “As reading as if”: Harryette Mullen’s ‘cognitive similes’
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- Invitation and call for papers: IALS IV, 2006
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