Bearing Witness for the Other, According to Levinas: Ian McEwan’s Atonement as a Case in Point
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https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2024.31.12Keywords:
Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy of Difference, Ethical Literature, Hermeneutics, Ian McEwan, Emmanuel LevinasAbstract
In the wake of the publication of Levinas’s unpublished works, the time has come to give a more thoughtful account of the fertility of Emmanuel Levinas’s thought on literature. In this article, I reflect on the category of “testimony” in an attempt to address the contradiction of bearing witness for the other, and I examine Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement as my object of study. Testimony must be linked to responsibility in order to be just, thereby demonstrating what an ethical theory of literature could be, one that is not “merely” humanistic.
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