XII CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL ABRALIC
Resumo:166-1


Oral (Tema Livre)
166-1Finitude without End: Death and Literature on the Way to Utopia
Autores:Patricia Vieira (GU - Georgetown University)

Resumo

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.