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The art of time [electronic resource] : Levinas, ethics, and the contemporary peninsular novel / Nina L. Molinaro

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Molinaro, Nina L., 1960-
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Lewisburg Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2019.
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vii, 223 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents
A Note on Translations -- One. Ethics, Alterity, and Levinas -- Two. Spain's Generacion X -- Three. Repeating the Same Violence or the Failure of Synchrony: Veo Veo, El frio, and Mensaka -- Four. The Betrayal of Diachrony: El secreto de Sara, Anatol y dos mas, and Tocarnos la cara -- Five. Diachrony and Saying: Arde lo que sera, Sentimental, and La fiebre amarilla -- Afterword.
Summary
"Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. One of the foremost theorists of ethics during the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) radicalized the discipline of philosophy by arguing that "the ethical" is the foundational moment for human subjectivity, and that human subjectivity underlies all of Western philosophy. Levinas's voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem of alterity or "otherness," which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior responsibility to, difference in relation to the competing movement toward sameness. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generacion X. These writers are distinct from their predecessors; they and their literary texts are closely related to the specific socio-political and historical circumstances in Spain; and their novels relate stories of more and less proximity, more and less responsibility, and more and less temporality. In short, they trace the temporal movement of alterity through narrative." --
"Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question "what should I do?" has infused the history of human narrative for more than two centuries. To study narrative fiction is to study ethics. One of the foremost theorists of ethics during the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) radicalized the discipline of philosophy by arguing that "the ethical" is the foundational moment for human subjectivity, and that human subjectivity underlies all of Western philosophy. Levinas's voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem of alterity or "otherness," which he conceptualizes as the articulation of, and prior responsibility to, difference in relation to the competing movement toward sameness. Academicians and journalists in Spain and abroad have recently fastened on an emerging cluster of peninsular writers who, they argue, pertain to a discernible literary generation, provisionally referred to as Generaci." --
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9781684481279 (paperback)
9781684481286 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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