| Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking Contributor(s): Wirth, Jason M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823268209 ISBN-13: 9780823268207 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Philosophy | Criticism |
| Dewey: 891.863 |
| LCCN: 2015006027 |
| Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.19 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wirth, Jason M.: - Jason Wirth is Professor of Philosophy and the current Piggott-McCone chair of the Arts and Sciences at Seattle University. |