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Gudomligt kaos och mänsklig ordning : om filosofi, litteratur och teologi

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Summary, in English

It can be said that literary texts do not have any obligation to reality, and that literature destabilises our relation to normal use of words and to established perspectives. Literature is in relation with something that cannot be explained or conceptualised. In this respect literature is close to religion. Literature invites us to believe in something that is unreal and beyond ordinary life. In literature we are confronted with something different and hence ordinary meaning of words, normal understandings and every clear defintion of concepts are shaken and brought to the field of uncertainties. In this particular respect, literture is very close to religion. At least that is so in Elisabeth Løvlie’s reading of Jacques Derrida and literature. This could be seen as in radical contrast to philosophy aiming at clarity and a rigorous use of concepts. I argue that many of the characteristics of literature that Løvlie underlines, also apply to philosophical writing. Concurrently, I argue that also literature indeed is connected to reality and indeed wants to say something about our world. I contend that philosophy can benefit from a deeper understanding of the parallels and similarities between philosophical writing and literature.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

170-178

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift

Volym

90

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Gleerups Utbildning AB

Ämne

  • Religious Studies

Nyckelord

  • clarity of meaning
  • fiction and non-fiction
  • literature and philosophy
  • Jacques Derrida
  • Elisabeth Løvlie

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0039-6761