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Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness

Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness

Bootle, Sam

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Series: Research Monographs in French Studies, Book 54

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781886482
ISBN13: 9781781886489
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Dec 16 2019
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

In late nineteenth-century France, the pessimist philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann was often portrayed as a disease-like force infecting the French body politic. For many French writers, however, German philosophy's 'otherness' was a source of fascination, and foremost among them was Jules Laforgue. This monograph, the first full-length study of Laforgue in English for 25 years, reveals how Laforgue's formative encounter with Schopenhauer and Hartmann was crucially informed by ideas of otherness, ideas that were associated not only with their work but also with German culture in general, and with the Eastern thought that both philosophers drew on. Through close textual analysis, the book shows how Laforgue's dynamic engagement with philosophical thought - manifest in his highly innovative verse as well as his unpublished notes - is bound up with a challenge to nationalistic thinking.

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