The Ethics of Literary Communication - Genuineness, directness, indirectness
The Ethics of Literary Communication - Genuineness, directness, indirectness
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文学传播的伦理——真实性、直接性、间接性
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10.1075/ds.19.14sie
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2013
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Siebers J
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Siebers J
An influential view of communication, for which we find support in the hermeneutical tradition as much as in Anglo-American philosophy of language, holds that communication is an endless process of dialogical, or pragmatic interpretation: a fusion of horizons or the pragmatic coordination of behaviour amid the indeterminacy of meaning. Seen this way, communication is a matter of interpretation; we never know what the other person really means, or even what the boundaries of sense are. At the same time we cannot step outside of communicative action; there is no Archimedean point which we can occupy in order to install semantic stability or iterability within our discourses. I think these insights, valid as they are, have to be complemented by an analysis that shows that all communication, precisely as a clash of interpretations, is oriented towards an absolute: towards a utopian horizon of significance, perhaps reminiscent of what Walter Benjamin (1969: 82) called “pure language”, without which communication cannot occur. Such being the case, it means that communicational critics, who view literature as a form of communication, inevitably have something to say about the way this utopian horizon of communication is contained within literature. Benjamin (ibid.) said that the task of the translator is “to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work”. is task is that of an endless approximation to a crystalline core of meaning, a stripping-away by rendering a text into another language in order to say ‘the same’, something that becomes visible only as it were ex negativo. e task of the* e research for this chapter was made possible by AHRC grant AH/J006637/1.