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.
| ISBN: | 9780823268207 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 2015 |
| Author: | Jason M Wirth |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Philosophy: aesthetics Literary theory Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |