Blind reading

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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Main Author: Fernando, Jeremy
Other Authors: Brendan Patrick Quigley
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2009
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DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18843
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.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
institution Nanyang Technological University
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Fernando, Jeremy
Blind reading
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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