Commiserating with Devastated Things
Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2015
256 pages
978-0-8232-6822-1 (ISBN)
Description
Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." 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.
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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English
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NY
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
File size
1,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-6822-1 (9780823268221)
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10/2015
Fordham University Press
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Person
Jason Wirth is Professor of Philosophy and the current Piggott-McCone chair of the Arts and Sciences at Seattle University.
