‘앎’의 윤리적 가능성—D. H. 로렌스와 E. 레비나스
The Ethical Possibility of Knowledge in D. H. Lawrence and E. Lévinas
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As clearly shown in the way that Matthew Arnold conceptualizes the meaning of culture, knowledge in the West has strongly associated with light and truth in opposition to darkness and ignorance. It has always been considered as essential, righteous, and good for humans. But surprisingly Emmanuel Lévinas argues that knowledge can not escape from the self and thus it does not put us truly in communion with the other. Unless we are aware of the possible violence of knowledge, we are not able to have an ethical relationship with the other. This paper tries to think Lawrence’s sense of knowledge presented in his “leadership” novel The Plumed Serpent by comparing it with Lévinas’s thought. Darkness evoking the Mexican other in this novel is quite ambivalent; it makes possible Kate’s new relationship with the unknown whereas it becomes entangled in phallic mystery of Cipriano in the later part of the novel. The phallic mystery supported by the voice of the narrator/author occludes the spirit of Quetzalcoatl which leads to “something transcendent.” In spite of it, Lawrence’s sense of knowledge opens up for an ethical possibility in that real thought is, he argues, bound up with a bodily experience as well as the world of the unknown.
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As clearly shown in the way that Matthew Arnold conceptualizes the meaning of culture, knowledge in the West has strongly associated with light and truth in opposition to darkness and ignorance. It has always been considered as essential, righteous, and good for humans. But surprisingly Emmanuel Lévinas argues that knowledge can not escape from the self and thus it does not put us truly in communion with the other. Unless we are aware of the possible violence of knowledge, we are not able to have an ethical relationship with the other. This paper tries to think Lawrence’s sense of knowledge presented in his “leadership” novel The Plumed Serpent by comparing it with Lévinas’s thought. Darkness evoking the Mexican other in this novel is quite ambivalent; it makes possible Kate’s new relationship with the unknown whereas it becomes entangled in phallic mystery of Cipriano in the later part of the novel. The phallic mystery supported by the voice of the narrator/author occludes the spirit of Quetzalcoatl which leads to “something transcendent.” In spite of it, Lawrence’s sense of knowledge opens up for an ethical possibility in that real thought is, he argues, bound up with a bodily experience as well as the world of the unknown.
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