Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature / / Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lecercle, Jean-Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Considers the 'strong readings' that Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze imposed on the texts they readWhy do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature, where literature is a mere object of analysis, but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Disjunctive Synthesis -- 2 A Question of Style -- 3 Deleuze Reads Proust -- 4 Badiou Reads Mallarmé -- 5 A Modernist Canon? Badiou and Deleuze Read Beckett -- 6 Reading the Fantastic after Badiou and Deleuze -- Conclusion: Aesthetics or Inaesthetics? -- Bibliography -- Index