The Proustian Mind (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Elsner, Anna; Stern, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: 'Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?' Throughout his famous multi-volume work, Proust directly engages several philosophers, and few novels are as thoroughly saturated with philosophical themes and concepts as In Search of Lost Time.

The Proustian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the rich philosophical range of Proust's work and the first major volume of its kind. Including 31 chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into seven clear parts:

• Proust's life and works
• metaphysics and epistemology
• mind and language
• aesthetics
• ethics
• gender and sexuality
• predecessors, contemporaries and successors.

Within these sections, key Proustian themes are explored from a philosophical standpoint, including time, the self, memory, imagination, jealousy, beauty, love, subjectivity and desire. The final section considers Proust in relation to important philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze.

The Proustian Mind is essential reading for those studying aesthetics, philosophy of literature, phenomenology and ethics, and will also be of interest to those in literature studying modernism, French literature and the relationship between literature and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000790559
• Artikelnr.: 66431897

Autorenporträt

Anna Elsner is an Assistant Professor of French Literature and Culture at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is the co-editor of Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (2009), Medicine and Literature (forthcoming), and the author of Mourning and Creativity in Proust (2017). Thomas Stern is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College London, UK. He is the author of Nietzsche's Ethics (2020), and Philosophy and Theatre (Routledge, 2013), and the editor of The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (2019), and The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Anna Elsner and Thomas Stern Part 1: Life and Works 1. Marcel
Proust: A Student of Philosophy William Carter 2. Proust's Philosophical
Training Luc Fraisse Part 2: Metaphysics & Epistemology 3. The Mind in
Time: Proust, Involuntary Memory, and the Adventure in Perception Garry L.
Hagberg 4. In Search of Lost Place Anna Elsner 5. "Only Through Time Time
is Conquered": Proust on Death Andrew Huddleston 6. The Self Ben Colburn
7. Knowledge Adam Watt 8. The Pursuit of Uncertainty: Knowledge, Deferral
and Self-Defeat in Proust Richard Moran Part 3: Mind and Language 9. Memory
Simon Kemp 10. Proustian Habit Thomas Stern 11. Subjectivity: A Proustian
Problem Robert B. Pippin 12. Speech Michael Lucey Part 4: Aesthetics 13.
Contemplating a Proustian Library Virginie Greene 14. The experience of
beauty in Proust - a Freudian account Julia Peters and Anna-Lisa Sander
15. The Arts Jennifer Rushworth 16. Art and the Life-World: The Duck, the
Rabbit and the Madeleine Gary Kemp Part 5: Ethics 17. Proust and the
Philosophy of Love Martin Buijs 18. Proust and Lying: Ethics and Aesthetics
David Ellison 19. "Each of us is indeed alone": Vulnerability in In Search
of Lost Time Roos Slegers 20. Proust's Abraham, the Other L. Scott Lerner
Part 6: Gender and Sexuality 21. The Logic of Gomorrah: Proust and the
Subversion of Identities Justine Balibar 22. Proust on Desire Satisfaction
Robbie Kubala 23. Proustian Jealousy Elisabeth Ladenson Part 7: In
conversation with predecessors, contemporaries and successors 24. Proust
and Romanticism Michael N. Forster 25. Proust and Schopenhauer David Bather
Woods 26. Proust and Bergson: Fierce Criticality Suzanne Guerlac 27. Proust
and Nietzsche on Self-Fashioning: Towards a Post-Metaphysical Reading of
Proust Antoine Panaioti 28. The alter ego: Merleau-Ponty Anne Simon 29.
Proust the Phenomenologist: Sartre and Beauvoir as Readers of Proust Lior
Levy 30. Proust-Machine: Gilles Deleuze Thomas Baldwin and Patrick ffrench
31. Proust and Philosophical Influence Sebastian Gardner. Index

Rezensionen

"Interdisciplinarity is often praised, less frequently criticized, in both cases irrelevantly, since it so rarely actually exists. The Proustian Mind, which doesn't just set philosophy and literary studies side by side, but genuinely erases the boundary between them, is a very welcome exception, and one could do far worse than bunker down for a week with it..." - Ben Roth, MIND

"...all of the sections feature countless insights as to Proust's relevance in various dimensions of philosophy..." - Bryan Counter, Studies in the Novel