Badiou and Deleuze read literature
By: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Series: Plateaus
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780748638000
Description: "Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature, where literature is a mere object of analysis, but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.