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Literature and the Encounter with Immanence by Brynnar Swenson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Literature and the Encounter with Immanence about?
Philosophy, Literature, and Politics (PLP) offers studies of literature and literary history in the context of philosophical and political ideas. The series also spans the discursive territory in which philosophy is produced by literature and vice-versa. PLP is a special series in VIBS, the Value Inquiry Book Series. Literature and the Encounter with Immanence, In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza's most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: "We do not know what a body can do." A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa. Book jacket
Who reads Literature and the Encounter with Immanence?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brynnar Swenson
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004311923
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Humanities