https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31046 Wed 04 Sep 2019 09:55:41 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34548 Tue 26 Mar 2019 13:54:29 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31047 Blindness and Seeing. Both novels tackle directly a central, if not the central, signature metaphor of Western political thought, namely that of ‘seeing the light’. This metaphor takes many forms and recurs throughout the tradition of Western political philosophy as a source, legitimiser, and validator of knowing, and perhaps even a guarantor of knowledge. In particular, this metaphor has served to make knowable whatever it is that is signified by ‘the political’. By extension, it also means that whatever might be outside of this epistemological frame is rendered unknowable, if not unthinkable. Both of Saramago’s novels provide a fruitful means to recalibrate how we might know ‘the political’. The novels call into question the epistemic signatures that frame our commonly accepted understandings of ‘the political’ and in so doing provoke us further to question how we might move towards unlearning the epistemology of the political.]]> Tue 03 Sep 2019 18:22:05 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36198 Thu 27 Feb 2020 13:33:32 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:9867 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:14:32 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:47600 Mon 23 Jan 2023 16:13:24 AEDT ]]>