Blind reading
This paper asks whether it is possible to read ethically. An ethical reading, if there is such a thing, would entail a response to the text that is not determined by any prior knowledge. Only under this condition can reading be open to the possibility of encountering what is genuinely new. But the r...
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| author | Fernando, Jeremy |
| author2 | Brendan Patrick Quigley |
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| description | This paper asks whether it is possible to read ethically. An ethical reading, if there is such a thing, would entail a response to the text that is not determined by any prior knowledge. Only under this condition can reading be open to the possibility of encountering what is genuinely new. But the reader’s prior knowledge is also a condition of the possibility of reading. I will argue that the consequence of this double bind is that a certain blindness is a necessary part of any putative ethical reading. Such blindness makes every reading contingent, but perhaps what an ethical reading should first acknowledge is the ultimate unknowability of the text. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/188432019-12-10T12:47:46Z Blind reading Fernando, Jeremy Brendan Patrick Quigley School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology This paper asks whether it is possible to read ethically. An ethical reading, if there is such a thing, would entail a response to the text that is not determined by any prior knowledge. Only under this condition can reading be open to the possibility of encountering what is genuinely new. But the reader’s prior knowledge is also a condition of the possibility of reading. I will argue that the consequence of this double bind is that a certain blindness is a necessary part of any putative ethical reading. Such blindness makes every reading contingent, but perhaps what an ethical reading should first acknowledge is the ultimate unknowability of the text. Master of Arts 2009-07-20T04:32:41Z 2009-07-20T04:32:41Z 2008 2008 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18843 en 189 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Fernando, Jeremy Blind reading |
| title | Blind reading |
| title_full | Blind reading |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Blind reading |
| title_short | Blind reading |
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| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18843 |
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