TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wirth,Jason M.
AU  - Caputo,John D.
TI  - Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking 
T2  - Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
SN  - 9780823268207
AV  - PG5039.21.U6 Z94 2016eb
U1  - 891.8/635 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Broch
KW  - Gombrowicz
KW  - Milan Kundera
KW  - Musil
KW  - Novel
KW  - philosophy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; 1. Tamina at the Border --; 2. Caught Looking --; 3. Laughter --; 4. Dogs and History --; 5. Kitsch --; 6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel --; 7. Novel Idiocy --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy's
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823268221?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823268221
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823268221/original
ER  -