Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Abstract
Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is an attempt to answer them, by considering the ‘strong readings’ Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. The author demonstrates that philosophers need literature as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature (where literature is a mere object of analysis), but in philosophy and litera ... More
Keywords: philosophers, literature, philosophy, European philosophers, strong readings, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, texts, literary critics, philosophy and literature
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748638000 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638000.001.0001 |
