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- Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- 1. Tamina at the Border
- pp. 1-29
- 2. Caught Looking
- pp. 30-47
- 3. Laughter
- pp. 48-72
- 4. Dogs and History
- pp. 73-100
- 6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel
- pp. 131-162
- 7. Novel Idiocy
- pp. 163-186
- Bibliography
- pp. 211-222
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823268221
Related ISBN(s)
9780823268207
MARC Record
OCLC
922451637
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-12-08
Language
English
Open Access
No