Badiou and Deleuze read literature / Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lecercle, Jean-Jacques.

Series:

Plateaus.

Plateaus: new directions in Deleuze studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Badiou, Alain.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is the first attempt to answer them, by considering the 'strong readings' Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. Lecercle 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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Disjunctive Synthesis; 2 A Question of Style; 3 Deleuze Reads Proust; 4 Badiou Reads Mallarmé; 5 A Modernist Canon? Badiou and Deleuze Read Beckett; 6 Reading the Fantastic after Badiou and Deleuze; Conclusion: Aesthetics or In aesthetics?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7486-5264-7

1-282-74973-0

9786612749735

0-7486-4163-7

OCLC:

657642302