Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature

Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2010

Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature

Jean-Jacques Lecercle

In the series Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748641635

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Considers the 'strong readings' that Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze imposed on the texts they read

Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions.

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 literature, a heady and unusual mix.

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Disjunctive Synthesis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2 A Question of Style Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Deleuze Reads Proust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4 Badiou Reads Mallarmé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5 A Modernist Canon? Badiou and Deleuze Read Beckett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6 Reading the Fantastic after Badiou and Deleuze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 224
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: June 26, 2010
ISBN: 9780748641635