Commiserating with Devastated Things : Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Wirth, Jason M.

Fordham University Press（2015/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823268207
• DDC分類 891.86354

Full Description

Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." Working through Kundera's oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms—not applies—philosophical reflection within literature.
Reading between Kundera's work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy's.

Contents

Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Tamina at the Border 2 Caught Looking: The Universe of the Novel 3 Laughter 4 Dogs and History 5 Kitsch 6 Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel 7 Novel Idiocy Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index