Ik zoek al maanden een woord voor het volgende:
"This third kind of literacy is really what one might call the “knowledgeable,” except that the word smacks too much of mere information and know-how and too little of the affective and experiential, which are what is crucial to it. It is a type of literacy that is concentrated in but not exclusive to books, and which today also involves film and the other arts. It can come from conversations on the street, lectures, and political rallies, but for a variety of reasons, it revolves around the printed word. It has to do with participating in certain basic or even essential experiences – knowing, if only vicariously, a form of life that touches on our own. In this sense, reading The Iliad is not just an exercise in reading (which is what it too often becomes in high school), and it is not a matter of being able to say you’ve read it or occasionally drop learned allusions. There is a sense in which living through the Trojan War is a part of all of us, and expected of us, if only in the safe and bloodless form of ever-newly translated Homeric verses. Reading Einstein or Darwin is not just acquiring knowledge; it is sharing an intellectual adventure that lies at the heart of our civilization. In this sense, literacy is a kind of love, not an ability or an accomplishment. It is participation, education in the classical sense – being brought up to be part of something, not just to be successful in a career."
Iemand een suggestie? Ik gebruik nu 'epistemologisch', maar daar zit ook te veel in van 'kennis' en te weinig van 'kunst en cultuur'. Er moet bovendien iets van 'horizonverbreding' in zitten.
I make it a thing, to glance in window panes and look pleased with myself.