Commiserating with Devastated Things : Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking / Jason M. Wirth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wirth, Jason M., 1963- Author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kundera, Milan--Knowledge--Literature.

Kundera, Milan.

Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Tamina at the Border

2. Caught Looking

3. Laughter

4. Dogs and History

5. Kitsch

6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel

7. Novel Idiocy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823268238

0823268233

9780823272471

0823272478

9780823268221

0823268225

OCLC:

922451637