Recent Additions
- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Saramago's Blindness and Community(2022-07)Drawing on classic works of philosophical anthropology by Helmuth Plessner, Max Scheler, and Arnold Gehlen, the article looks back at José Saramago’s Blindness, (and its film version of 2008 by Fernando Meirelles), to explore his experiment in thinking the foundation of human community by imagining the response to a sort of pandemic of white blindness. Positing a fundamental precarity of human co-existence, Saramago subtly develops a set of basic moral values, including trust, dignity, and a sensus communis, to show what binds us together as meaningful communities in the absence of a shared ethico-religious tradition. Paying close attention to the details of Saramago’s famous and gripping thought experiment, the article shows how the novel, with help from the resources of the tradition of philosophical anthropology in thinking human being as naturally “deficient” and “eccentric” and human nature as consequently basically communal, can continue to teach us important lessons in community today in a time of pandemic. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication World Literature, the Canon, and the Case of Saramago(2022-06-01)The article revisits some key recent work about world literature, especially Rebecca Walkowitz's Born Translated (2015), to assess the criteria for inclusion in a current, synchronic World Literature canon. Contrasting the global novel, the cosmopolitan novel, and works rooted in more local or national traditions, whether realist or modernist, the article questions the values at play in contemporary canonization, especially as revealed in the pedagogy of David Damrosch. In an attempt to situate Jose Saramago, the similar cases of various authors are reviewed, including J. M. Coetzee and Antonio Lobo Antunes. Drawing on some criticism of world literature from postcolonial discourse and from comparative literature, I propose caution for critics and teachers in assuming, in our global era, that we have left behind the older national traditions and canons. While we cannot and should not abandon the project of World Literature, we need to be more critical of its on-going development as a discipline and its practical formation of a canon. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Re-Reading Saramago on Community –Blindness(2021-03-15)Drawing on the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy, Roberto Esposito, Judith Butler and others, the article looks back at José Saramago’s Blindness to explore his experiment in thinking the foundation of human community. Positing a fundamental precarity of human co-existence, Saramago subtly develops a set of basic moral values, including trust, dignity, and a sensus communis, to show what binds us together as meaningful communities in the absence of a shared ethico-religious tradition. Paying close attention to the details of Saramago’s famous and gripping thought experiment, the article shows how the novel, with help from some recent theoretical work in moral and political philosophy, can continue to teach us important lessons in community today.
Most viewed
- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication 10051 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Person PEI-LIN LEEPei-Lin Lee serves as Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University; Consultant, Center of Sleep Disorder, National Taiwan University Hospital. Her current academic positions at international sleep societies include American Academy of Sleep Medicine Fellow and Co-Chair International Assembly; Asian Society of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Medicine Education Task Force committee member. Her current research focuses on the era of new technology and big data in sleep medicine; and intervention on sleep and metabolism in sleep disordered breathing.4930 36 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Person 2875 10 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Person 2829 16 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Person 2504 12