The Essay and Singularity
Keywords:
literary genres, essay, singularity, interpretationAbstract
The essay as a genre signifies the very form of linguistic (ontological) practice that generates the being of the world as the existing one. It can never happen by way of reportage (representation), but only as direct linguistic testimony, as an event. The essay is naked singularity at work, a discourse that is not censored (i.e., covered) by the nihilistic horizon of power and abuse. Finally, I apply the theoretical findings of this paper to a concrete critical analysis of a recent essay about Slovenian art since 2000.References
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