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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785031503321

Autore

Lecercle Jean-Jacques

Titolo

Badiou and Deleuze read literature [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-7486-5264-7

1-282-74973-0

9786612749735

0-7486-4163-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Plateaus: new directions in Deleuze studies

Disciplina

801.95092244

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Disjunctive Synthesis; 2 A Question of Style; 3 Deleuze Reads Proust; 4 Badiou Reads MallarmeĢ; 5 A Modernist Canon? Badiou and Deleuze Read Beckett; 6 Reading the Fantastic after Badiou and Deleuze; Conclusion: Aesthetics or In aesthetics?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is the first attempt to answer them, by considering the 'strong readings' Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature (where literature is a mere object of analysis), but in philosophy and