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Doubt A central premise for any humanist perspective is that doubt is the all-important ingredient for understanding the world and our place in it; that the acceptance of doubt-uncertainty, dubiety, ambiguity-is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. 1 Doubt enables thinking and reasoning; unquestioned certainty is, by contrast, a precondition for stasis and ignorance. Another version of this humanist precept is the Socratic cliché that ignorance is the beginning of wisdom; that understanding the limits of human knowledge is the precondition for a considered life.I would also argue that a kind of doubt plays an important role in our engagement with literature. As Milan Kundera noted, literature allows us to try on "experimental selves"; at the moment of reading, a new perspective opens up for the reader as they interface with the literary text and sample its experience. This elusive moment may be consciously or unconsciously perceived; it may be slight or great; but the encounter is unavoidable in reading. In that illumination, the reader briefly measures the experience they find in the text (whatever that may be) against their own deepest self-registering doubt (if only for a mome

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN