Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor

ISBN-13: 9780415584319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 130 str.

Miguel de Beistegui

Opis

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst many other themes. Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor is the first book to try and connect Proust's implicit ontology of experience with the question of style, and of metaphor in particular. Miguel de Beistegui begins with an observation: throughout In Search of Lost Time, the two main characters seem prone to chronic dissatisfaction in matters of love, friendship and even art. Reality always falls short of expectation. At the same time, the narrator experiences unexpected bouts of intense elation, the cause and meaning of which remain elusive. Beistegui argues we should understand these experiences as acts of artistic creation, and that this is why Proust himself wrote that true life is the life of art.

Spis treści

1. Looking for Joy  2. Proust Among the Psychologists  3. Finding Joy (Involuntary Memory)  4. Giving Joy (Metaphor)  5. Dress or Patchwork?  Index

O autorze

Miguel de Beistegui is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor (Routledge, 2012), Immanence and Philosophy: Deleuze (2010), Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology (2005) and Heidegger and the Political (Routledge, 1998). He is editor (with Simon Sparks) of Philosophy and Tragedy (Routledge, 2000).