An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas

Contents

Contents Abbreviations vii Introduction “Seek? More Than That: Create” 1 Chapter 1 Nature: Variations on the Theme “Why are there several samples of each thing?” 13 Chapter 2 The Mythical Time of the Ideas: Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze as Readers of Proust 23 Chapter 3 Deformation and Recognition: Proust in the “Reversal of Platonism” 33 Chapter 4 “The Words of the Oracle”: Merleau-Ponty and the “Philosophy of Freudianism” 49 Chapter 5 How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know?: Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century 59 vi CONTENTS Appendix Love and Music: Theme and Variations 69 Notes 83 Index 111 ...