An unprecedented deformation
Subtitle: Marcel Proust and the sensible ideas
By: Mauro Carbone ; translated by Niall Keane
Series: SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy; SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781438430218
Work titles: Deformazione senza precedenti
Description: "French novelist Marcel Proust made famous "involuntary memory," a peculiar kind of memory that works whether one is willing or not and that gives a transformed recollection of past experience. More than a centruy later, the Proustian notion of involuntary memory has not been fully explored nor its implications understood. By providing clarifying examples taken from Proust's novel and by commenting on them using the work of French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Italian philosopher Mauro Carboneinterprets involuntary memory as the humen faculty providing the involuntary creation of our ideas through the transformation of past experience. This rethinking of the traditional way of conceiving ideas and their genesis as separated from sensible experience as has been done in western thought since Plato allows the author to promote a new theory of knowledge, one which is best exemplified via literature and art much more than philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Seek" : more than that; title: create!; title: Nature : variations on the theme; title: The mythical time of the ideas; title: Deformation and recognition; title: The words of the oracle; title: How can one recognize what one did not know?; title: Love and music.