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DH discussions on ethics, violence AND SRS SPOIL

Jul 25, 2007 12:18

NOTE: Spoilers behind cut, and in all discussions linked!

magnetic_pole kicked off a much-needed discussion of how the gender roles in DH reveal some rather strong and, as most see it, conservative "norms" being promoted. Suffice it to say, the book's ending (yes, including that "E" part) may be "conclusive" for the canon, but are only just the beginning for ( Read more... )

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Animal rights, and Levinas and Harry slashpine July 26 2007, 03:22:55 UTC

Ooh! thanks for the comments. I was looking at yours, and some on hp_essays which I only just now found (headdesk) and I know I'm so tedious and rambly by comparison. (Cannot "see" my structure when I compose on a computer ( ... )

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Re: Levinas slashpine July 26 2007, 04:13:25 UTC

Yeee! You know Levinas. So cool. I need to read about him; that book sounds very neat.

I would LOVE to see you turn that novel into O-fic. It was such an awesome glimpse of the pre WWII eastern European world that most westerners know very little about.

But look at Levinas - there is all this influence, and so the reader of such a story of yours has the thrill of a double payoff. They begin the fic knowing nothing, so as they learn, that's marvelous. But then they begin to also realize they *did* know things, but they were never fit into a frame, and now they do. So -click- a second payoff. I love it when I both learn things I didn't know -- the "original" creativity in a fic -- but at the same time, also discover things I knew, but not in this way.

Re: Levinas, and why Harry's relational thinking is not ethics slashpine July 26 2007, 04:03:14 UTC

With his ethics as encounter-with-the-Other, Levinas also solved the problem of Sartre's "existential angst," that neurosis-inducing realization that the world is huge with choices and anything you do IS a choice, to live is to either make choices -- or let them be made for you. By connecting with Others, we become aware of our ethical duties to them - and from them. This is why feminist ethics, and ethics of care, often draw on Levinas, to emphasize the relational nature of ethics (totally opposite of traditional ego-centered ethics ( ... )

So, Levinas. The COOLEST ethics ever. slashpine July 26 2007, 03:55:28 UTC

Levinas does 2 very unusual things on the issue of who the "I" is -- where you as a person come from -- and linked to that is his theory on where ethics comes from and thus, what ethics requires us to do ( ... )

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