| Descript. |
lvi, 221 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-206) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "A Life of Pure Immanence": Deleuze's "Critique et Clinique" Project / Daniel W. Smith -- 1. Literature and Life -- 2. Louis Wolfson; or, The Procedure -- 3. Lewis Carroll -- 4. The Greatest Irish Film (Beckett's "Film") -- 5. On Four Poetic Formulas That Might Summarize the Kantian Philosophy -- 6. Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos -- 7. Re-presentation of Masoch -- 8. Whitman -- 9. What Children Say -- 10. Bartleby; or, The Formula -- 11. An Unrecognized Precursor to Heidegger: Alfred Jarry -- 12. The Mystery of Ariadne according to Nietzsche -- 13. He Stuttered -- 14. The Shame and the Glory: T. E. Lawrence -- 15. To Have Done with Judgment -- 16. Plato, the Greeks -- 17. Spinoza and the Three "Ethics" -- 18. The Exhausted. |
| Summary |
"Essays Critical and Clinical is the final work of the late Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy. It includes essays, all newly revised or published here for the first time, on such diverse literary figures as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Alfred Jarry, and Lewis Carroll, as well as philosophers such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. As Proust said, great writers invent a new language within language, but in such a way that language in its entirety is pushed to its limit or its own "outside." In Essays Critical and Clinical, Deleuze is concerned with the delirium - the process of Life - that lies behind this invention, as well as the loss that occurs, the silence that follows, when this delirium becomes a clinical state." |
| Subject |
Literary style.
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Language and languages -- Sytle.
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| Other Author |
Smith, Daniel W.
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Greco, Michael A.
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| ISBN |
9780816625697 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0816625697 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0816625689 (alk. paper) |
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