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Author Nancy, Jean-Luc, author.

Title Expectation : Philosophy, Literature / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Robert Bononno ; texts compiled with the assistance of Ginette Michaud.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Fordham University Press, [2017]
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Summary "A courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse" from one of France's leading thinkers (Jean-Michel Rabaté, from the Introduction). Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues such questions as literature's claims to truth, the status of narrative, the relation of poetry and prose, and the unity of a book or of a text, and he addresses a number of major European writers, including Dante, Sterne, Rousseau, H̲lderlin, Proust, Joyce, and Blanchot. The final section offers a number of impressive pieces by Nancy that completely merge his concerns for philosophy and literature and philosophy-as-literature. These include a lengthy parody of Valéry's "La Jeune Parque," several original poems by Nancy, and a beautiful prose-poetic discourse on an installation by Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani that incorporates the Faust theme. Opening with a substantial Introduction by Jean-Michel Rabaté that elaborates Nancy's importance as a literary thinker, this book constitutes the most substantial statement to date by one of today's leading philosophers on a discipline that has been central to his work across his career. "Among Nancy's many distinguished writings, Expectation demands recognition." -- Choice"-- Provided by Freading.
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Subject Literature -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bononno, Robert, translator.
Michaud, Ginette, 1955- compiler.
ISBN 9780823277612 (epub)
9780823277605 (print)
Standard No. 9780823277612
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