Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Published on 14. March 2012
171 pages
978-0-7486-5522-9 (ISBN)
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Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions. Lecercle considers the ''strong readings'' that Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze imposed on the texts they read. He 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 literature, a heady and unusual mix.
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Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
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03/2012
Edinburgh University Press
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