Rethinking Literature: An Atlas for the Ecological Imagination
摘要
Discussing the concept of literature, theorized by Jean-Paul Sartre, and the concept of the hyperobject, theorized by Timothy Morton, this essay attempts to define literature as a special hyperobject, capable of acting as a veritable atlas for the ecological imagination. The writer does not only speak of the love or hate of his characters, but of a manifold happening: the falling of the rain, the alternation of day and night, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, lightning and thunder, natural disasters, and so on. Events and agents that are not only human. Such a definition of literature is indebted to the concept of literature, as expressed by Husserl in the third appendix of The Crisis of the European Sciences and shows how it is possible to derive a new phenomenological experience of literature as such. Literature more than any other art form exhibits a global symbolic and energetic transformative power. It has always been the Atlas we have not yet considered, the aesthetic form of universal coexistence.