The Art of Being : : Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy / / Yi-Ping Ong.
In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and the world. At stake are the condition...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue. The Existence of the Novel in Nabokov’s Diagram
- Introduction. The Point of View of Existence
- Chapter One. Toward an Existentialist Poetics of the Novel
- Chapter Two. The Character of Self-Consciousness: Representing Freedom in the Novel of Marriage
- Chapter Three. Detotalized Totality: Situation, World, and Being-in- the- Novel
- Chapter Four. The Novel and the Unfinished Work of Art
- Conclusion. The Novel and Philosophy
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index