Other Others

Other Others
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781438430867
ISBN-13 : 1438430868
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Book Synopsis Other Others by : Steven Shankman

Download or read book Other Others written by Steven Shankman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social construction of the Other. For Emmanuel Levinas, in contrast, the Other is precisely that which eludes construction and categorization. In a study that ranges from literature of ancient China, Greece, and Israel to modern Egypt, Italy, West Africa, and America, Steven Shankman tests Levinas's ideas by reading literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian orbit for figurations equivalent to Levinas's notion of the Other. He also places ethics at the center of intercultural—or, in his words, "transcultural"—comparative literature. In contemporary literary and cultural studies, it is often assumed that culture has the last word. However, as Levinas insists—and as Shankman argues throughout this book—it is ethics that is the "presupposition of all Culture," that is situated "before Culture."


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