BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260607T095528Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120430T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120430T160000 SUMMARY:The Present of Reading: Listening as Ethics UID:20260615T021921Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:115 Victoria Parade\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: In this paper I explore what it might mean to think of reading as a kind of listening. I think about the role or roles of the body in reading\, and of the relation between reading and listening more specifically. While we tend to equate reading with seeing\, I contend that any simple or exclusive coupling of reading with vision &lsquo\;overlooks&rsquo\; or misses the possibility of exploring reading as an activity that involves more of the body\, in more complex ways. What I suggest is that reading\, in the ethical mode that I am investigating here\, has much in common with an active and engaged form of listening that preeminently establishes a relation with the other or text. Listening\, perhaps better than looking\, captures what remains ethical in the practice of reading. If my intuitions here are correct then a turn toward &lsquo\;listening&rsquo\; might be the jolt necessary to remind us of the scene of reading\, its bodily dimension and ethical context. To this end\, I engage with Hans Jonas&rsquo\; &ldquo\;The Nobility of Sight&rdquo\; and Luce Irigaray&rsquo\;s The Way of Love\, in order to extend my own ongoing work on ethics and reading. In particular\, I explore Irigaray&rsquo\;s work on &lsquo\;listening-to&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;listening-with&rsquo\; as a preparation for what she refers to as &lsquo\;a wisdom of love between us&rsquo\;. In doing so\, I trace the possibility of other ways of thinking about and doing philosophy (and of teaching philosophy) &ndash\; slow and careful ways that outline an &lsquo\;attention to present life&rsquo\;.

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