Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

Jason M. Wirth

ISBN 10: 0823268209 / ISBN 13: 9780823268207

Published by Fordham University Press, 2015

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This study will attempt to understand, through both a careful reading of Kundera's oeuvre as well as a consideration of the Continental philosophical tradition, the place that Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." I argue that Kundera transforms--not applies--philosophical reflection within the art form of the novel. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DS; HPD; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823268209
• ISBN 13: 9780823268207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jason Wirth is Professor of Philosophy and the current Piggott-McCone chair of the Arts and Sciences at Seattle University.