The Force of Time: An Introduction to Deleuze through Proust

by Keith W. Faulkner

Overview

Time is not normally visible. While we often sense the events in time, we overlook what Marcel Proust calls "time in a pure state." That's why, in The Force of Time, Keith W. Faulkner shows how Gilles Deleuze extracts his "ontology of the virtual" from Proust's psychological time. To prove this, he examines the ways these writers say we occupy time without counting it. In the end, he reveals not only how Proust influences Deleuze, but how we sense time as a force as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761838784
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/24/2007
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Keith W. Faulkner received his Ph.D. from The University of Warwick and is the author of Deleuze and the Three Syntheses of Time (2006).

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 List of Abbreviations
Chapter 3 General Introduction: The Story of N
Part 4 I: Love is Space and Time Made Perceptible to the Heart
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 A Sort of Magnifying Glass
Chapter 7 The Two Sexes Will Die, Each on Its Own Side
Chapter 8 The Original Sin of Women
Chapter 9 A World of Inhuman Pleasure
Chapter 10 Conclusion
Part 11 II: The Intermittences of the Heart
Chapter 12 Introduction
Chapter 13 A Passionate Astronomy
Chapter 14 The Birth of the World
Chapter 15 Between the Two Routes, Transversals Established Themselves
Chapter 16 The Strange Contradiction of Survival and Nothingness
Chapter 17 Conclusion
Chapter 18 General Conclusion: Proust at Last
Part 19 Endnotes
Part 20 Bibliography
Part 21 Index