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Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

By Jason M. Wirth

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0823268217, 9780823268214
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6626458 bytes)
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Pages
256\253
Time added
2023-07-12 08:56:12

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. 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 Kistch 6 Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel 7 Novel Idiocy Notes Bibliography Index

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