Proust as Philosopher

The Art of Metaphor

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Miguel De Beistegui

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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 is the first book to properly explore Proust from a philosophical angle and argues that the key to understanding Proust is the concept of experience. 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. He goes on to explore the nature of these joyful and pleasurable experiences and the transformation required of art, and particularly literature, if it is to incorporate them. He concludes that Proust revolutionises the idea of metaphor, extending beyond the confines of language to understand the nature of lived, bodily experience.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date NZ

August 2nd, 2012

Author

Miguel De Beistegui

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributors

Translated by Dorothee Bonnigal-Katz
Translated by Simon Sparks

Pages

136

ISBN-13

9780415584326

Product ID

5923960

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