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Ethical encounters : spaces and selves in the writings of Rudy Wiebe /
The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy on the et...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
166. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy on the ethics of encountering the other, the book argues that Wiebe's writings show that the self's knowledge offers an inadequate basis for ethically valid representations of those encounters. In the search for ethical ways of engaging with alterity, Wiebe's writings offer new ways of employing silence and the p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9401209790 9789401209793 1306167566 9781306167567 |