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

• Autore: Lecercle Jean-Jacques
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 801.95092244
• Soggetto topico: Literature - Philosophy; Philosophy, French - 20th century
• 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 Mallarmé; 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Badiou and Deleuze read literature
• ISBN: 0-7486-5264-7; 1-282-74973-0; 9786612749735; 0-7486-4163-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785031503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Plateaus.