Intoxication (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory) (Hardcover)
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Description
From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from The Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences.
About the Author
Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Among the most recent of his many books to be published in English are Corpus; Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity; The Truth of Democracy; Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II; Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality; The Pleasure in Drawing; Identity: Fragments, Frankness; After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes; and, with Frederico Ferrari, Being Nude: The Skin of Images (all Fordham). Philip Armstrong is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.