Commiserating with Devastated Things

Commiserating with Devastated Things

Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

  • Autor: Wirth, Jason M.
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • Col·lecció: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
  • ISBN: 9780823268207
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823268221
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823268214
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2015
  • Any de publicació digital: 2015
  • Mes: Octubre
  • Idioma: Anglés

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.

  • Cover
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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