Klara and the Sun
, the latest novel by Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, forces one to reckon with one's own anxieties about the future of emerging technologies and confront deep questions about ...the nature of dignity, existence, and humanity. The novel also provides one with complex characters and a speculative future through which to live new lives, experience novel worlds, and see through different eyes. At the same time, the novel’s world offers us an uncanny distance from our own, making us prone to pass judgments on the characters’ moral faults that we later come to recognize are also our own.
Sammendrag I artikkelen diskuteres Sara Stridsbergs debutroman Happy Sally (2004) med utgangspunkt i de tre begrepene historie, estetikk og etikk. Teoretisk fundert i narrativ psykologi og estetisk ...teori viser artikkelens to første deler henholdsvis hvordan historien og historiefortellingen spiller en sentral tematisk rolle i romanen, og hvordan romanen kan leses som en tematisering av vilkårene for å gripe og forstå fortiden, og av kunstens privilegerte rolle i så henseende. I siste del låner jeg perspektiver fra den såkalt etiske kritikken idet jeg diskuterer etiske aspekter ved romanens egen bruk av historiske elementer, og forholdet mellom begrepene estetikk og etikk.
Sammendrag I artikkelen diskuteres Sara Stridsbergs debutroman Happy Sally (2004) med utgangspunkt i de tre begrepene historie, estetikk og etikk. Teoretisk fundert i narrativ psykologi og estetisk ...teori viser artikkelens to første deler henholdsvis hvordan historien og historiefortellingen spiller en sentral tematisk rolle i romanen, og hvordan romanen kan leses som en tematisering av vilkårene for å gripe og forstå fortiden, og av kunstens privilegerte rolle i så henseende. I siste del låner jeg perspektiver fra den såkalt etiske kritikken idet jeg diskuterer etiske aspekter ved romanens egen bruk av historiske elementer, og forholdet mellom begrepene estetikk og etikk.
This article tries less to give a practical demonstration than to theoretically sketch out and propose a novel approach to a specific aspect of ancient Greek culture, namely τιμή (honor) and the ...pursuit of it. Its aim is not only to illustrate the potential proficiency of such a methodology (and to set the ground for its application), but also to highlight concrete opportunities in the Humanities to study how the language of civic institutions in epigraphic sources and the moral language of ethical philosophy penetrate poetry in Greece: the idea that inscriptions and ethical philosophy are something that scholars of poetry should leave to ancient historians and philosophers has left lots of room for new scholarship in this area. Special attention is devoted here to Euripidean drama and its characters who, in exhibiting specific virtues (e.g. benevolence, solidarity, and friendship) while establishing reciprocal relationships, stand as socio-ethical examples of the pursuit of an honorable status within one’s community. Scholars have not fully explored to what extent this portrayal matches historical evidence for benefactions/exchanges between Greek citizens/cities and, at the same time, it complies with the virtues described by Aristotle’s ethical works. By interpreting honor as a means by which people regulate their social lives, the objective of this article is to show how Euripidean drama can serve as a valuable source to be explored for understanding Greek moral attitudes.
Article concerns problems of „new character” which appears in literature of the end of XX and the beginning of XXI centuries and is rooted in the phenomenon of young „generation of nobody” and show ...rich psychological portraits of protagonists. Contemporary Polish prose, which is not optimistic anymore, show anthropological sensitivity, is called a literature of initiation, present a young protagonists in a labyrinth of values, whose life seems to be suffering, they are lost in reality, lonely, looking for answers of difficult existential questions, looking for the true, friendship and love. Most significant literary examples which present problems mentioned above and which are rooted in the wide context of ethics – are works of Ewa Przybylska: Dzień kolibra (1997) i Dotyk motyla (2016) and Most na Missisipi (2012) and Barbara Kosmowska: Pozłacana rybka (2007),Sezon na zielone kasztany (2013) and Samotni.pl(2012). Most of these texts could be discussed also in educational perspective.
Za (zgodnjo) humanistično recepcijo grške tragedije je značilna aristotelizirajoča intepretacija v skladu s tedanjim razumevanjem Aristotelove misli o tragediji; v tem okviru je bila Sofoklova ...Antigona razumljena predvsem kot moralni nauk, medtem ko o literarni in filozofski kompleksnosti, zaradi katere je postala v zadnjih treh stoletjih eno najvplivnejših del svetovne literature, tam ni sledu. Po drugi stran pa je tudi v sodobni kritiki mogoče zaslediti dobro argumentirane sodbe, da nemajhen del tovrstnih odmevnih modernih intepretacij Antigone temelji na pretirani intelektualizaciji tragedije (M. Heath) in da je bil moralni nauk pomembna in pričakovana funkcija atiške tragedije v izvornem kontekstu. Če dopustimo, da je v Antigoni moralni nauk, ni nujno, da ga razumemo tako preprosto, kot ga je opredelil npr. Kamerarij; pač pa ga lahko z dobrimi razlogi interpretiramo kot opozorilo na nenadomestljiv pomen individualnega človeškega bivanja za spoznavanje resničnosti in etično življenje.
resumo A partir do romance Divórcio, de Ricardo Lísias, o artigo busca discutir o que este texto literário propõe a respeito da ética, tomando como referência o jornalismo, sobretudo o relacionamento ...entre as fontes e os profissionais da informação. Lísias mostra as relações quase obscenas entre as fontes, os comportamentos antiéticos dos jornalistas e avança sobre esta relação como metáfora do comportamento e do atual estágio da sociedade brasileira. O texto, para esta discussão, lança mão de questões teóricas sempre presentes em manuais de jornalismo e se vale de dois acontecimentos referenciais − o caso Watergate, nos Estados Unidos; e o Caso Collor de Mello, no Brasil − para mostrar os diferentes comportamentos adotados pelos jornalistas em uma e outra situação e sua aproximação com o atual contexto brasileiro.
Although the so-called ethical turn in literary studies happened in the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century, the topic "Literature and Ethics" in its various forms and denominations has ...been present since the beginnings of the reflection on literature. This treatise summarizes the most prominent research directions of this topic and attempts to point out their strengths and weaknesses. As the most burning deficiency, it identifies the so-called cacophony of ethical approaches to literature, characterized by the lack of theoretical and methodological self-reflection. In order to overcome this deficiency, it proposes to scrutinize some basic concepts and relations of the ethical literary criticism, such as the range of terms "ethics" and "literature", the relation between ethics and morality and between ethics and politics, the problem of aesthetic autonomy in relation to the ethical evaluation, the problematic issue of aesthetic re-evaluation on the ground of ethical evaluation, etc. In the conclusion, the treatise stresses the general importance of ethical research in literary studies and points out (the ethical) obligations of researchers engaging in ethical literary criticism.
The paper deals with three no longer dramatic texts (Poschmann) by Simona Semenič, namely the feast or the story of a savory corpse or how roman abramovič, the character janša, julia kristeva, age ...24, simona semenič and the initials z. i. found themselves in a tiny cloud of tobacco smoke; sophia or while i almost ask for more or a parable of the ruler and the wisdom and 7Cooks, 4Soldiers, 3 Sophias. The main characters in all three texts are bullied and abused women, victims of religious and political wars as well as of patriarchal paradigms and enforced social roles. Their stories are based on true stories and then set within a timeless fictional frame in their fragmentary form. Characteristic of Simona Semenič's writing is the subversion of traditional reading conventions which involves the reader more closely into the decoding of the text and its interpretation. The division between the dialogue and stage directions disappears as stage directions become more than mere directions and their narrative function is emphasized. It is therefore necessary that the addressee of the text reconsiders basic relations within it, who speaks and to whom, what is the position of the author, of the dramatis personae, and their own position. The reader/spectator is more emotionally and cognitively involved in the plot and thus becomes to a greater degree a participant, and consequently responsible for the state of the society. Simona Semenič uses innovative textual strategies to achieve an artistic impact and to open up ethical aspects through a universal perspective. Even though she violates dramatic conventions, she at the same time relativizes and revitalizes them, and her new textual strategies are closely tied to the problems of reception and the power of the theatre today.
The relationship between ethics and aesthetics has differed throughout their long history. For most of the premodern era they were closely linked, but in modern and postmodern societies the ...relationship between them is becoming unclear and contradictory. This paper addresses the profane concept of aesthetic autonomy, which in modern societies has developed as a kind of side effect of the anthropocentric idea of the subject's autonomy. The position which the modern subject has assumed is fundamentally characterized by a semantic openness arising from the variability and flexibility of cognitive self-organization. On the one hand, this openness is an advantage, as it allows for a greater adaptability in dynamic environments; on the other hand, it is also a disadvantage, as it hinders the establishment of a consensus and stable conditions. Ethics and aesthetics are trying to resolve this problem in two different ways: the former is testing the limits of the potentials of openness by means of non-pragmatism, while the other is limiting these potentials through the pragmatism of binding normative systems. However, both pay a price: aesthetics loses its influence on the social systems which follow a different logic, while ethics, which cannot do away with the fundamental openness of an autonomous subject, is now itself marked by arbitrariness. At this point it is necessary to turn away from the symptoms and address the cause of the problems: the logic of autonomous subjectivity. A detailed consideration initially shows that the subject's taking possession of the initial condition is untenable, since the point of self-awareness can only be the result of processes which precede it and not vice versa. Nothing originates in us-except nothingness itself; on its basis, even the category of existence becomes arbitrary, and in this contradiction, anthropocentrism undergoes its ultimate dismantling. Our view is directed towards something greater than existence and non-existence. We must bid farewell to being the starting point. It first seems that the problem of arbitrariness has gotten worse. In front of us there grew an openness which we cannot comprehend, let alone reduce to a manageable degree. However, it is also here that a solution arises: we can neither overcome the openness by endlessly making use of its potentials nor by limiting it, but instead by accepting its absoluteness. When the subject comprehends that the comprehension comes entirely from the world which he or she is in the process of comprehending, his or her horizons open up to the world from which he or she originated, as well as to that from which the world originated. To an openness which opens once again. To a not-empty emptiness. This absolute equalization of all with all is the numinous foundation of ethics and aesthetics. In it, the relationship between what we are and what we are not is (in a way that cannot be exceeded) marked by the principles of deliverance and non-distinctiveness.
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