Exhibiting wounds: difficult realities and literary testimony

Thesis

Cora Diamond introduced the concept of a ‘difficult reality’ – a reality that disrupts and wounds our capacity for sense-making – in her 2002 essay, “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy”, in response to misunderstandings of the work of Stanley Cavell and J. M. Coetzee. In the decades since, this concept has been employed and projected into new contexts in many ways, across the disciplines of philosophy, literary theory and criticism, theology, and political theory. Howe...

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Authors: Rosen, M

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-5rwezq8k4
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: climate fiction; astonishment; testimony; difficult realities; Cora Diamond; deflection; Iris Murdoch
• Subjects: Philosophy