Literature and Religions in Contemporary Europe: Some Semiotic Considerations

Abstract

This essay offers a semio-philosophical reading of the relations, given or simply possible, between literary discourse and religious discourse. The semiotic aspect concerns the role that textuality plays in either of the practices examined. The philosophical one concerns questions about the meaning of this co-partnership, of the religious and the literary, within the horizon of textuality, and about the consequences of the current digital liquidity, the effect of which is the deconstruction of enunciation, and the replacement of the category of χρῆσις (of the Book) with the category of digital access (usually, to an e-Book).