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Conversations about ethics and politics are of paramount importance to the present conjuncture. In this work,Ricky Varghese attempts a close reading of certain key literarytexts by Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera wherein one might seethe ways in which the novelist has attempted a discussion abouthow the subjects of self and other are founded on thepossibility of/for ethics within an intimate cosmopolitical space. Thework gestures toward a move from and beyond universal conversationsabout cosmopolitanism to a more nuanced reading of thecosmopolitical space as one being founded on ethics and intimateencounters between self and other. Bringing togetherpsychoanalytic theory as it pertains to embodiment, literary criticism in hisreadings of Kundera's texts, and the ethical philosophy ofJacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, Ricky Varghese attempts to think about cosmopolitanism differently, as the locus point whereintimacy, ethics, and justice can be initiated into theconversation between self and other, as subjects that are mutually constituted.
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Conversations about ethics and politics are of paramount importance to the present conjuncture. In this work, Ricky Varghese attempts a close reading of certain key literary texts by Franco- Czech novelist Milan Kundera wherein one might see the ways in which the novelist has attempted a discussion about how the subjects of self and other are founded on the possibility of/for ethics within an intimate cosmopolitical space. The work gestures toward a move from and beyond universal conversations about cosmopolitanism to a more nuanced reading of the cosmopolitical space as one being founded on ethics and intimate encounters between self and other. Bringing together psychoanalytic theory as it pertains to embodiment, literary criticism in his readings of Kundera's texts, and the ethical philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, Ricky Varghese attempts to think about cosmopolitanism differently, as the locus point where intimacy, ethics, and justice can be initiated into the conversation between self and other, as subjects that are mutually constituted.
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Varghese Ricky Ricky Varghese is a doctoral student at the University ofToronto. His research brings together the fields of psychoanalytic theory, literary criticism,and continental philosophy, particularly dealing with questions of ethics and itsrelation to subjectivity. He is presently completing a dissertation on shame, melancholy,and embodiment.
