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Abstract

This discussion is to criticize the oriented of totality and sameness of text understanding from the viewpoint of Levinas’ other philosophy. And to explore the possibility of infinity orientation. The totality orientation of text understanding presupposes that the text contains an objective main idea. This objective main idea is found by text experts using rational thinking and scientific methods. The reader seeks to identify this objective main idea in the text. So all readers should share the objective main idea of the text. On the other hand, the oriented of sameness of text understanding seems to construct meaning by using background knowledge. The meaning that the reader composes is similarly repeated between texts as a function of background knowledge. So people think that it is necessary for the reader to construct individual subjective meanings. There is no consideration of the others in the totality orientation and sameness orientation of these text understanding. These oriented readers can not communicate with the text-other. The reader-self can aim for infinity when communicating with the text-other. This is because the text other implies infinite attributes. The reader-self can internalize the content of the other’s consciousness in the process of communicating with the text-other’s and change as a result. To this end, the reader should invite a text-other in his mind to exchange communication contents. This allows the reader to change the self and achieve the essential expectation of reading. It is necessary to specify the method so that the reader’s understanding of the text can be directed toward this infinity.