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Title:Personambiguity in Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another and the Abyssal Surface of Responsibility
Authors:ID Theojaya, Simeon (Author)
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Language:English
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Abstract:Numerous studies across disciplines discuss the complex relationship between human facial features and personal identity in psychosocial dynamics. Most of these researches follow the common definition of the face as the forepart of the head. Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) is a Japanese novel that explores the face’s complexity in great depth and contests this common notion of the face. First, this novel shows that the search for meaning behind the face’s physical properties is lacerated by discords of individuality/abstraction and identity/pretense. These straining pairs (which I call personambiguity) exemplify Lévinas’s point that the face’s meaning outweighs its phenomenality. Second, this novel presents that the constraint and primacy of responsibility transcend the face’s sensible qualities. My reading holds that the face is an abyssal surface, in which the other manifests itself against our appropriative idea of otherness and summons us to irrecusable responsibility.
Keywords:Abe, ethics, face, Lévinas, phenomenology
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:23.06.2022
Year of publishing:2022
Number of pages:str. 359-380
Numbering:Letn. 31, št. 120/121
UDC:17:1
ISSN on article:1318-3362
DOI:10.32022/PHI31.2022.120-121.16 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:119958787 New window
Publication date in DiRROS:25.10.2024
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Title:Phainomena : [glasilo Fenomenološkega društva v Ljubljani
Shortened title:Phainomena
Publisher:Fenomenološko društvo [etc.], Fenomenološko društvo [etc.], Nova revija, Inštitut Nove revije - Zavod za humanistiko
ISSN:1318-3362
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Dvoumnost osebe v romanu Obraz drugega Koba Abeja in brezdanja površina odgovornosti
Abstract:Številne študije s področij različnih disciplin obravnavajo kompleksno razmerje med človekovimi obraznimi potezami in osebno identiteto znotraj psihosocialne dinamike. Večina tovrstnih raziskav sledi splošni definiciji obraza oz. obličja kot sprednjega dela glave. Roman Koba Abeja Obraz drugega (Tanin no kao) je japonsko delo, ki zelo poglobljeno razgrinja kompleksnost obraza in spodbija takšno splošno predstavo obraza. Najprej, roman kaže, da iskanje pomena za fizičnimi značilnostmi obraza trgata razpora med individualnostjo in abstrakcijo ter med identiteto in pretvarjanjem. Razpetost med takšnimi pari (ki jo imenujem dvoumnost osebe) pojasnjuje Levinasovo mišljenje, da pomen obličja presega njegovo fenomenalnost. Nadalje, roman ponazarja, da je zadrega in predhodnost odgovornosti transcendirata občutne kvalitete obraza. Moje branje zastopa mnenje, da je obličje brezdanja površina, na kateri se drugi sam manifestira zoper našo prisvojitveno idejo drugosti in nas kliče k neogibni odgovornosti
Keywords:Abe, etika, obličje, Levinas, fenomenologija


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