Force of time : an introduction to Deleuze through Proust / Keith W. Faulkner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, Keith W., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Proust, Marcel.

Time in literature.

Philosophy in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 169 pages ; cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, 2008.

Summary:

Time is not normally visible. While we often sense the events in time, we overlook what Marcel Proust calls "time in a pure state." That's why, in The Force of Time, Keith W. Faulkner shows how Gilles Deleuze extracts his "ontology of the virtual" from Proust's psychological time. To prove this, he examines the ways these writers say we occupy time without counting it. In the end, he reveals not only how Proust influences Deleuze, but how we sense time as a force as well.

Contents:

A sort of magnifying glass

The two sexes will die, each on its own side

The original sin of women

A world of inhuman pleasure

A passionate astronomy

The birth of the world

Between the two routes, transversals established themselves

As if there were in time, different and parallel series

The strange contradiction of survival and nothingness

General Conclusion: Proust at last.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-166) and index.

ISBN:

0761838783

9780761838784

OCLC:

181328253