Author

Publication

2001 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

74,500 words, Guess

Page Count

298 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100199242275
  • ISBN-139780199242276
  • Goodreads2321010
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002281654
  • OCLC Control Number46651681
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780199242276
  • Open LibraryOL3583995M

Classifications

  • DDC193
  • LCCB3317 .L276 2001
  • LCCB3317.L276 2001

Description

"This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of time and transcendence in Nietzsche's philosophy. Drawing in particular on Gilles Deleuze's early studies of the two writers, it argues (against Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva) that they pursue a parallel programme of overcoming post-Kantian idealism through an emphasis on the materiality of the body and the 'genealogy' of its interpretations. 'Proust's perspectivism' is analysed in the context of Nietzsche's radical epistemological relativism, the key themes of involuntary memory and eternal recurrence are read together as elements in a shared aesthetics of self-creation, and in conclusion the complex temporalities of Nietzsche and Proust's 'untimely' texts are shown to issue into the problematics of the 'postmodern'."--BOOK JACKET.

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Series Statement

  • Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

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