| Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature Contributor(s): Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748649050 ISBN-13: 9780748649051 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | Criticism |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| Series: Plateaus -- New Directions in Deleuze Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 considers the 'strong readings' that Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze imposed on the texts they read. He 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. |