Nietzsche and Proust: a comparative study

New York: Oxford University Press (2001)
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This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of Nietzsche's philosophy. It focuses on the problem of knowledge, the status of the self, the experience of transcendence, and the complex time structures in the works of the two writers.

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B3317.L276 2001

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0199242275
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Epistemoptics: Proust’s Perspectivism

This chapter examines Marcel Proust's philosophy of perspectivism and ‘epistemoptics’ and the link it establishes with Friedrich Nietzsche. The first critic to make the move from relativity of perspective to perspectivism was Ernst Robert Curtius, in his groundbreaking study Marcel Proust.... see more

Conclusion

This book has argued that Marcel Proust's philosophy of perspectivism finds its most appropriate expression in fiction. It is no surprise that Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy should have been, and should continue to be, a potent force in spurring the literary creativity of novelists, poet... see more

Introduction: Nietzsche And Proust? Nietzsche And Proust?

This book presents a comparative study of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and French writer Marcel Proust in order to demonstrate the often striking affinities between two individuals who were in many ways exploring similar problems and developing parallel responses to them in the u... see more

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Proust and Schopenhauer.David Bather Woods - 2022 - In Anna Elsner & Thomas Stern (eds.), The Proustian Mind. New York, NY: Routledge.

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