This paper will compare and contrast how a philosopher writes about a poet with how a poet writes about a philosopher, or how a stranger writes about another stranger. In other words, it will be a discussion of exclusionary and inclusionary strategies in the process of rebuilding the Jewish community and legislating for its moral standards. The terms 'exclusion' and 'inclusion' are not meant to be taken literally; rather, the researcher will focus on their ontological and philosophical implications. This topic will have to be kept to a minimum. On this basis, the researcher will examine two Saul Bellow narratives: Humboldt's Gift [1] and Ravelstein [2]. The assumption is that they perfectly encapsulate Bellovian exclusionary philosophy. In both narratives, moving beyond the subjects' alienated world can take two forms: ontological exclusion and intellectual madness, or faith and pure insight, where the former seeks reconciliation through philosophical meditations on a beyond-outside the individual subject, while the latter seeks reconciliation by turning inward, to the self that can remain unsullied by social world vanity.
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Ramzi Marrouchi
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, University of Manouba, Tunisia.
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