ABSTRACT Can we gain knowledge by reading literature? This essay defends an account of reading, developed by Stanley Cavell and Hans-Georg Gadamer, that phenomenologically describes the experience of acquiring self-knowledge by reading literary texts. Two possible criticisms of this account will be considered: first, that reading can provide other kinds of knowledge than self-knowledge; and, second, that the theory involves illegitimately imposing subjective meaning onto a text. It will be argued, in response, that the self-knowledge gained in reading allows one to gain other sorts of knowledge too, and that the reading process described by Gadamer and Cavell avoids excessive subjectivism.

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在文本中阅读自己：卡维尔和加达默尔的浪漫阅读观念

摘要我们可以通过阅读文学获得知识吗？这篇文章捍卫了斯坦利·卡维尔（Stanley Cavell）和汉斯·乔治·加达默尔（Hans-Georg Gadamer）提出的阅读理论，以现象学的方式描述了通过阅读文学作品获得自我知识的经历。将考虑对这种说法的两种可能的批评：第一，阅读可以提供除自我知识以外的其他知识。其次，该理论涉及将主观含义非法强加给文本。作为回应，有人认为，阅读中获得的自我知识也可以使人们获得其他种类的知识，加达默尔和卡维尔所描述的阅读过程避免了过度的主观主义。