Dramatic Experiments by Eyal Peretz
offers a comprehensive study of Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of European modernity. Diderot was a French Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, art critic, and editor of the first major modern encyclopedia. He is known for having made lasting contributions to a number of fields, but his body of work is considered too dispersed and multiform to be unified. Eyal Peretz locates the unity of Diderot's thinking in his complication of two concepts in modern philosophy: drama and the image. Diderot's philosophical theater challenged the work of Plato and Aristotle, inaugurating a line of drama theorists that culminated in the twentieth century with Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud. His interest in the artistic image turned him into the first great modern theorist of painting and perhaps the most influential art critic of modernity. With these innovations, Diderot provokes a rethinking of major philosophical problems relating to life, the senses, history, and appearance and reality, and more broadly a rethinking of the relation between philosophy and the arts. Peretz shows Diderot to be a radical thinker well ahead of his time, whose philosophical effort bears comparison to projects such as Gilles Deleuze's transcendental empiricism, Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction, and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis.-
Psychoanalysis and Repetition
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Guilty
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Virality Vitality
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Derrida and Prosthetic Usage; or, How to Return to Cinder
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The Unraveled Plot
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Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy
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Atomistic Intuitions
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Before the Voice of Reason
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The Creation of the World or Globalization
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The Movement of Showing
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Bergson and History
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The Amorous Imagination
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Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other
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Bastard Politics
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Thinking Difference with Heidegger and Levinas
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The State of Sovereignty
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Bergson-Deleuze Encounters
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Oedipus
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Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy
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A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
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Event of Signature
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Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated
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Adventures in Phenomenology
Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438448039 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438448031 |
| Title | Dramatic Experiments |
| Author | Eyal Peretz |
| Series | Suny Series In Contemporary French Thought |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2013-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 271 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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