Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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| Management number | 231627367 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$24.70 | Model Number | 231627367 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | B01A38ZZ80 |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0823268214 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 1.2 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 252 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Part of series | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
| Publication date | October 20, 2015 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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