Reading Blindly: Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an Ethical Reading
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Table of Contents

Stumbling Around in the Dark

xi

Introduction: On Reading: A Pact With the Devil

1

                                    Part I:
                                    Blindness

15

Chapter 1: Blindness, or What Is This No-Thing We See?

19

The Book as a (Death) Sentence

25

Blind Ethics, or Close Your Eyes (to) See the Third

31

Literary Theory and the Erasure of Texts

41

Chapter 2: The Contract: Venus in Furs, or How to Read the Other

51

A Question of Violence; A Statement of Terror

52

A Question of Reading, or “Art Lies in the Gap Between the Painting and the Viewer”

56

“What Is To Be Done?” or How to Read While Maintaining Radical Otherness

62

The Reader Before the Law, or What Is My Right of Inspection

67