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Kirkpatrick, Kate, McGregor, Rafe and Simecek, Karen (2021) Literary interventions in justice : a symposium. Estetika: European Journal of Aesthetics, 58 (2). pp. 160-178. doi:10.33134/eeja.265 ISSN 2571-0915.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.265
Abstract
The purpose of this symposium is to explore the ways in which literature, broadly construed to include poetry and narrative in a variety of modes of representation, can change the world by providing interventions in justice. Our approach foregrounds the relationship between the activity demanded by some individual literary works and some categories of literary work on the one hand and the way in which those works can make a tangible difference to social reality on the other. We consider three types of active literary engagement: doing philosophy, ideological critique, and necessary rather than contingent performance. Kate Kirkpatrick opens with Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation (2013), reading the narrator as not only a critic of colonial and postcolonial discourse but also a literary exemplar of the search for justice when it is difficult to know to what level of explanation to attribute its absence. Rafe McGregor demonstrates how the final season of Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle (2015–19) makes a radical break from the previous three, exposing the misanthropy at the core of right-wing populism and calling for a fundamentally democratic response from the left. Finally, Karen Simecek argues that poetry in performance has a potentially reparative function for the ethically lonely – the vulnerable, the oppressed, and the persecuted – in society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Allegory, Ethics , Literature -- Philosophy, Justice in literature , Social psychology , Social justice | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Estetika: European Journal of Aesthetics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Helsinki University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2571-0915 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 16 September 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 58 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 160-178 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.33134/eeja.265 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 September 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 September 2021 | ||||||
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