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Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature

Jerzy Franczak author Mikołaj Golubiewski translator Ryszard Nycz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:17th Jul '23

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Jerzy Franczak comprehensively presents Jacques Rancière’s thought by emphasizing the relationship between politics and literature. This detailed analysis takes into account the context of modern aesthetics and political philosophy, as a result, the book introduces further protagonists such as Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, or Jean-François Lyotard. Franczak first reconstructs Rancière’s original philosophy of literature and subsequently apply it in readings of select world literature masterpieces by Gustav Flaubert, Max Jacob, Bertold Brecht, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth.

ISBN: 9783631881644

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 509g

340 pages

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