Lumina care devorează lumea. Eseu despre orbire
The Light That Devours the World. Blindness

Summary/Abstract: The metaphor of light inaugurated the discourse on human knowledge and understanding in Ancient Greece. On the other hand, the sacred books of Kabbalistic tradition contain, besides regular black letters, the white spaces between them and, of course, the whole reality. As a matter of fact, the whole reality is absorbed by Torah. The light emitted by white letters puts the Hassid reader, turned into a Hassid dreamer, in the possession of an understanding of the ultimate reality. But how can one compare oranges and apples? Light operates as the principle of a special kind of hermeneutics. The assertion is also accurate if it is translated in context of Saramago’s Blindness. The object of understanding is still reality, although not the same kind as the one above, which is reached with the help of dreams induced by reading. The reality here is discovered through a bright blindness which acts as the embodiment of a phenomenological mechanism, namely the husserlian eidetic reduction.The meaning of reality can also be gained from the vantage point of heideggerian phenomenology, as understanding one’s own being, in a world sharedwith others. Reality might differ, but light is, in any of these circumstances, a means of understanding.

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