Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust
Published on 26. June 2020
Book
Hardback
116 pages
978-90-04-42255-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays, Maurizio Ferraris explores the world portrayed in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. He ponders how memory is tied to self-identification and knowledge; how the passage of time is only perceptible after it has passed; and how life, ultimately, is accurately portrayed in literature in ways that were seen as inconceivable in our youth. Running throughout the book is the sense that memory is all we are; we are what we remember or what others remember of us.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42255-1 (9789004422551)
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Person
Maurizio Ferraris is Full Professor and former Vice-rector at the University of Turin, where he is President of Labont and SCIENZA NUOVA. He has written more than sixty books and worked in the field of Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, and Social Ontology.
Content
Presentation to the First Edition
Note
The Sweet Cheat Gone
?1 The Fugitive
?2 Truth, Misunderstandings, Rumours
Notebooks and Novel
?1 Unpublished Works
?2 What the Cahiers can Teach Us
?3 Names
?4 Characters
?5 Metamorphoses and Migrations
?6 Fragments and Contexts
?7 Affections
?8 Bibliographical Note
Bal de tetes.bete, betise and Identity
?1 The Guermantes Matinee
?2 Personality and Seriality
?3 The Group and the Band
?4 Theory of Identity
?5 Psychology, Sociology, Biology
Problems with Autobiography
?1 The Autobiographical Pact
?2 The Writing of Life
?3 Structural Anthropology
?4 Time Lost and Time Regained
The Master of the "Madeleine" and the Master of the "esprit de Guermantes"
?1 Problems with marcellism
?2 The Failure of Pure Narration
?3 Secondary Rehabilitation of Intelligence
Like Giants Immersed in Time: Ontology, Phenomenology, and Marcel Proust
?1 It No Longer Exists but I can Perceive It
?2 Ontology
?3 Phenomenology and Epistemology
?4 The Atemporal Self
?5 In Search of Lost Time, or the Children's Crusade
?References
?Index
Note
The Sweet Cheat Gone
?1 The Fugitive
?2 Truth, Misunderstandings, Rumours
Notebooks and Novel
?1 Unpublished Works
?2 What the Cahiers can Teach Us
?3 Names
?4 Characters
?5 Metamorphoses and Migrations
?6 Fragments and Contexts
?7 Affections
?8 Bibliographical Note
Bal de tetes.bete, betise and Identity
?1 The Guermantes Matinee
?2 Personality and Seriality
?3 The Group and the Band
?4 Theory of Identity
?5 Psychology, Sociology, Biology
Problems with Autobiography
?1 The Autobiographical Pact
?2 The Writing of Life
?3 Structural Anthropology
?4 Time Lost and Time Regained
The Master of the "Madeleine" and the Master of the "esprit de Guermantes"
?1 Problems with marcellism
?2 The Failure of Pure Narration
?3 Secondary Rehabilitation of Intelligence
Like Giants Immersed in Time: Ontology, Phenomenology, and Marcel Proust
?1 It No Longer Exists but I can Perceive It
?2 Ontology
?3 Phenomenology and Epistemology
?4 The Atemporal Self
?5 In Search of Lost Time, or the Children's Crusade
?References
?Index