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Description for Intoxication
Paperback. Translator(s): Armstrong, Philip. Series: Idiom Inventing Writing Theory. Num Pages: 72 pages, 9 color illustrations, 9 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 98.
From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a Bacchanalian revel, from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, ... Read more
From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a Bacchanalian revel, from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy's sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Series
Idiom Inventing Writing Theory
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823267736
SKU
V9780823267736
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99-15
About Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adele Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham). Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State ... Read more
Reviews for Intoxication
The originality of Intoxication lies in the acuity and patience (and indeed the touch of humor) with which it teases out the surprising concurrence, or interaction, of two apparently unrelated terms-that of the Absolute on the one hand, and that of ivresse or drunkenness on the other.
-Richard A. Rand
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-Richard A. Rand
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