Commiserating with Devastated Things : : Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking / / Jason M. Wirth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wirth, Jason M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Caputo, John D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; 1. Tamina at the Border --; 2. Caught Looking --; 3. Laughter --; 4. Dogs and History --; 5. Kitsch --; 6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel --; 7. Novel Idiocy --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823268221; 9783110729030
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823268221?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jason M. Wirth.

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.