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Expectation - Philosophy, Literature (Paperback)
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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, Hoelderlin, 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
Valery'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 Rabate 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.
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