To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical
imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at
issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of
physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of
promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a
key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certain
repression of the poetics of sleep in all its conceptual
impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in
modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of
sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the
problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep
to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought
and the rich possibilities of thinking 'sleep' in the writings of
Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book's aim is to dredge the
remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of
waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away
in thinking and writing 'sleep'.
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