Ética, literatura y educación ciudadana para un mundo global

Abstract

The notion of the subject as the product of reciprocal recognition requires mechanisms enabling the movement from the strangeness to the recognition of the other. This movement is the core of every process of moral education, especially the process of educating citizens in universal terms. Literary narrative enables such movement from strangeness to recognition, as much through the generation of Aristotles’s empathic relationships, as through the process of critical reflection developed in Brecht’s aesthetics, Jauss’s social function of literature and critical hermeneutics. In virtue of these reasons, literature should play a central role in every process of educating citizens.