Nietzsche and Proust: A Comparative Study

by Duncan Large

Overview

This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of Nietzsche's philosophy. It focuses on the problem of knowledge, the status of the self, the experience of transcendence, and the complex time structures in the works of the two writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199242276
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2001
Series:	Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Duncan Large is Lecturer in German, University of Wales Swansea

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations, Editions, and TranslationsIntroduction: Nietzsche and Proust? 1. Towards a Comparative Analysis: Four Case Studies2. Proust's Nietzsche3. Epistemoptics: Proust's Perspectivism4. In Search of the Self5. Logics of the Future PerfectConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex