Literature and the encounter with immanence /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2017] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; VOLUME 298. Philosophy, literature, and politics Value inquiry book series ; v. 298. Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12350614 |
| Summary: | In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza's most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: "We do not know what a body can do." A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa . |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004311939 9789004311930 9789004311923 9004311920 |
| ISSN: | 0929-8436 ; |