Courageous vulnerability : ethics and knowledge in Proust, Bergson, Marcel, and James /
This work develops the ethical attitude of courageous vulnerability through the integration of the phenomenon of involuntary memory in Marcel Proust's work and a variety of closely related themes taken from the philosophies of Henri Bergson, William James, and Gabriel Marcel.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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Colección: | Studies in contemporary phenomenology ;
v. 2. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Introduction; Involuntary Memory: An Unusual Pleasure Caused by an Identity of Sensations; Privileged Moments of the Imagination; Pleasurable Certainty and Wonder; Couvercles, Obligation, and Obstacles to the Search; La réalité pressentie: Joy and Sorrow in the Privileged Moment; Felt Knowledge; Epistemic Responsibility; Conclusion; Introduction; Bergson: Intuition and Intellect; The Task of the Artist; The Problem of Language and the Freshness of Experience; Courageous Vulnerability: Preliminary Remarks; Courageous Vulnerability at Work; Conclusion; Introduction.
- Bergson on James, James on BergsonVagueness and/in Language; Pragmatic Meaning and Truth; The Sentiment of Rationality and Anhedonia; Anhedonia and the Broken World of À la recherche; Marcel's Distinction between Problem and Mystery; Primary and Secondary Reflection, Despair and Hope; Conclusion; Introduction; Stendhal's Crystallization; Albertine a Stone round Which Snow Has Gathered; Love Regained in Absence; Love and the Role of Habit; Love as a Poetical Action: Albertine an Unconscious Thing of Beauty; Love as the Desire to Possess; The Tragedy of Having; The Tragedy of Desire.
- Presence Made Impossible by l'avoir-implicationConclusion; Introduction; Religion, Mysticism, and the Privileged Moment; Anhedonia Dispelled by Uneven Paving Stones; Mystical Moments in À la recherche; The Place of the Privileged Moment on James' Mystical Ladder; Invitation to a Strenuous Pursuit of Involuntary Memory; Zest and the Mystic Sense of Hidden Meaning; The Will to Believe in Privileged Moments; Conclusion; Introduction; Fidelity and Death in À la recherche; The Will to Believe in Presence; Sincups and Effigies: A Critique of Creative Fidelity.
- Conclusion: The Difficulty of Being Courageously VulnerableEpilogue; Bibliography; Index.