Commiserating with Devastated Things

Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Russian, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Aesthetics
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Author: Jason M. Wirth ISBN: 9780823268214
Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication: October 20, 2015
Imprint: Fordham University Press Language: English
Author: Jason M. Wirth
ISBN: 9780823268214
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication: October 20, 2015
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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