Peretz Dramatic Experiments

Life according to Diderot
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4804-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peretz, Eyal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction to the “Age of Diderot”

Part I. Diderot and the Problem of Metaphysics—D’Alembert’s Dream

1. Life’s Drama

2. Who Speaks?: Between Dreaming and Waking

3. Two Images of the Image: The Bees and the Spider

Part II. Three Short Experiments

4. The Identification with the Phantom: The Paradox of the Actor

5. Enlightenment’s Pain: On Diderot’s Dramatic Logic of the Senses—Letter on the Blind

6. The Drama of Inheritance and the Question of Revolution: A Conversation of a Father with His Children

Conclusion: Diderot, Rousseau—The Self-Portrait of Modernity

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses.