Nietzsche and Proust

A Comparative Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924227-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of time and transcendence in Nietzsche's philosophy. Drawing in particular on Gilles Deleuze's early studies of the two writers, it argues (against Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva) that they pursue a parallel programme of overcoming post-Kantian idealism through an emphasis on the materiality of the body and the 'genealogy' of its
interpretations. 'Proust's perspectivism' is analysed in the context of Nietzsche's radical epistemological relativism, the key themes of involuntary memory and eternal recurrence are read together as elements in a shared aesthetics of self-creation, and in conclusion the complex temporalities of Nietzsche and Proust's
'untimely' texts are shown to issue into the problematics of the 'postmodern'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Large, Duncan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Über Autor(innen)

Duncan Large is Lecturer in German, University of Wales Swansea