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The Art of Being is a powerful account of how the literary form of the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence. Yi-Ping Ong shows that for Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir, the form of the novel in its classic phase yields the conditions for reconceptualizing the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and the world. Their discovery gives rise to a radically new poetics of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century realist novel. For the existentialists, a paradox lies at the heart of

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Author

Yi-Ping Ong

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674983656

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14