Literature and the encounter with immanence /
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...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill-Rodopi,
2017.
Series:
Value Inquiry Book Series
298.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.
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Call Number: PN49 .L58 2017
| 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: | 9789004311930 |
| ISSN: | 0929-8436 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |