Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

by Jason M Wirth and Jason M Wirth

Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." Working through Kundera's oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms-not applies-philosophical reflection within literature.Reading between Kundera's work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823268209
• ISBN13: 9780823268207
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"