ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC</TITLE><link rel=STYLESHEET type=text/css href=css.css></HEAD><BODY aLink=#ff0000 bgColor=#FFFFFF leftMargin=0 link=#000000 text=#000000 topMargin=0 vLink=#000000 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table align=center width=700 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td align=left bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=550><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=3><font size=1>XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC</font></font></strong><font face=Verdana size=1><b><br></b></font><font face=Verdana, Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><strong> </strong></font></font></td><td align=right bgcolor=#cccccc valign=top width=150><font face=arial size=2><strong><font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><font size=1>Resumo:166-1</font></em></font></strong></font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><br><br><table align=center width=700><tr><td><b>Oral (Tema Livre)</b><br><table width="100%"><tr><td width="60">166-1</td><td><b>Finitude without End: Death and Literature on the Way to Utopia</b></td></tr><tr><td valign=top>Autores:</td><td><u>Patricia Vieira </u> (GU - Georgetown University) </td></tr></table><p align=justify><b><font size=2>Resumo</font></b><p align=justify class=tres><font size=2>Among existential possibilities, the possibility of death occupies a special place, since, after the decline of the metaphysical model of human beings endowed with an immortal soul, unsurpassable finitude became the hallmark of the human condition. Post-metaphysical philosophy and literature examines the ramifications of finitude not only in its multifaced thematizations of death but also by focusing on the vulnerability of the human body and the material conditions for its survival, symbiotically entwined with the ethical and political implications of a finite human ontology. As a result, utopian literature needs to grapple with the constitutive finitude of its subjects, as much as with the limits of it own political project. </font></p></td></tr></table></tr></td></table></body></html>