XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC

Resumo:167-1

Oral (Tema Livre)

167-1	Between this World and Another: Literature and the Utopia of Worldhood
Autores:	Michael Marder (UL - University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Resumo

A crucial insight of phenomenology is that the world is not set over and against the subject in a primordial confrontation and, therefore, is not an object to be apprehended and potentially dominated through the imposition of rigid forms onto unruly matter, leading to a technical subjugation of the natural environment or of other human beings, but is, rather, a milieu, wherein the I is a priori immersed. This talk will consider the role of phenomenological worldhood and its utopian possibilities in the creation of world literature. I will carry out this analysis through a philosophical exploration of the "world" as the opening unto experience that precedes any determinate place and through the juxtaposition of the utopian-phenomenological conception of worldhood and the institution of "world literature."

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