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Utopia: Reading and Redemption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Silvana Rabinovich
Silvana Rabinovich*
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National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Abstract

This paper suggests an approach to the various possibilities of reading as a practice responsible for generating thought. It might be said that it is an approach to the dismissal of reading as the origin of other paths of thought. Utopia, understood as anticipation, yields its place to the figure of redemption (in Benjamin's sense of the word) as imminence of the absolutely other, expectation and extreme attention. The text invites the reader to try other routes in the practice of reading (other than solitary silent reading), in which the body and the senses play a part, and - especially - the other, to allow the advent of a thinking that welcomes justice. In an act of memory, reading - as heteronomy - opens onto the future.

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Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 109 - 116
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Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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