Commiserating with Devastated Things
Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2015
252 pages
978-0-8232-6821-4 (ISBN)
Description
Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "e;the universe of the novel."e; 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.
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Content
- 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 Kitsch
- 6 Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel
- 7 Novel Idiocy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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