An unprecedented deformation: Marcel Proust and the sensible ideas

125 Pages·2010·0.663 MB·English

by  Proust, Marcel;Carbone, Mauro

mauro carbone
An Unprecedented
Deformation
marcel proust and the sensible ideas
Niall Keane, Translator

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SUNY SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN PHILOSOPHY
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An Unpr cedented
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marcel proust and the sensible ideas
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Translated by Niall Keane
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Carbone, Mauro, 1956–
[Deformazione senza precedenti. English]
An unprecedented deformation : Marcel Proust and the sensible ideas /
Mauro Carbone ; translated by Niall Keane.
p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy)
(SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-3021-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-3020-1 (pbk : alk. paper)
1. Proust, Marcel, 1871–1922. Du côté de chez Swann. 2. Idea
(Philosophy) 3. Intuition. 4. Philosophy, Modern—20th century. I. Title.
PQ2631.R63Z54548213 2010
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Introduction
“Seek? More Th an Th at: Create” 1
Chapter 1
Nature: Variations on the Th eme
“Why are there several samples of each thing?” 13
Chapter 2
Th e Mythical Time of the Ideas:
Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze as Readers of Proust 23
Chapter 3
Deformation and Recognition:
Proust in the “Reversal of Platonism” 33
Chapter 4
“Th e Words of the Oracle”:
Merleau-Ponty and the “Philosophy of Freudianism” 49
Chapter 5
How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know?:
Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century 59
vi CONTENTS
Appendix
Love and Music: Th eme and Variations 69
Notes 83
Index 111
Abbreviations
M. MERLEAU-PONTY
AD Les Aventures de la dialectique (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1955); Adven-
tures of the Dialectic, trans. Joseph Bien (Evanston: Northwestern Uni-
versity Press, 1973).
EP Eloge de la Philosophie et autres essais (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1960);
In Praise of Philosophy, trans. John Wild and James M. Edie (Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 1963).
IP L’institution/La passivité. Notes de cours au Collège de France (1954–
1955), Préface de Claude Lefort textes établis par Dominique Darmail-
lacq, Claude Lefort et Stéphanie Ménasé. (Paris: Éditions Belin, 2003).
N La Nature: Notes Cours du Collège de France, 1956–57 (Paris: Seuil,
1995); Nature: Course Notes From the Collège de France, trans. Robert
Vallier (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003).
NC Notes de Cours 1959–1961, Préface de Claude Lefort, texte établi par
Stéphanie Ménasé. (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1996).
OE L’œil et l’esprit (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1964); “Eye and Mind,” in Th e
Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, ed. Galen Johnson (Evanston: North-
western University Press, 1993), 121–149.
PH “Préface à A. Hesnard”, L’œvre de Freud et son importance pour le monde
moderne (Paris: Payot, 1960), 5–10; “Phenomenology and Psycho analysis:
Preface to Hesnard’s L’Oeuvre de Freud,” trans. Alden L. Fisher in Review
of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 18 (1982), 67–72.
PP Phénoménologie de la Perception (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1945); Phe-
nomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1962, revised 1981).
vii
viii ABBREVIATIONS
PriP Le primat de la perception et ses conséquences philosophiques (Lagrasse:
Éditions Verdier, 1996); Th e Primacy of Perception, ed. J. M. Edie (Evan-
ston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
RC Résumés de Cours: Collège de France 1952–1960 (Paris: Éditions Gallimard,
1968); Th emes from the Lectures at the Collège de France, 1952—1960,
trans. John O’Neill (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
S Signes (Paris: Gallimard, 1960); Signs, trans. Richard McCleary (Evan-
ston: Northwestern University Press, 1964).
SC La structure du comportement (Paris, P.U.F., 1942); Th e Structure of
Behavior, trans. Alden L. Fischer (London: Metheun, 1965).
SNS Sens et Non-Sens (Paris: Nagel, 1948); Sense and Non-Sense, trans.
Hubert Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 1964).
VI Le Visible et l’Invisible texte établi par Claude Lefort accompagné d’un
avertissement et d’une postface (Paris: Gallimard, 1964); Th e Visible
and the Invisible, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston: Northwestern Uni-
versity Press, 1968).
GILLES DELEUZE
CC Critique et clinique (Paris: Éditions Minuit, 1993); Essays Critical and
Clinical, trans. Daniel Smith and Michael Greco (Minneapolis: Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 1997).
DR Diff érence et répétition (Paris: P.U.F., 1968); Diff erence and Repetition,
trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
FBLS Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation (Paris: Editions de la diff érence,
1981); Francis Bacon: Th e Logic of Sensation, trans. Daniel W. Smith
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
LS Logique du sens (Paris: Éditions Minuit, 1969); Th e Logic of Sense, trans.
Mark Lester and Charles Stivale (New York: Columbia University Press,
1990).
PS Marcel Proust et les signes (Paris: P.U.F., 1964, re-edited in 1970 and
1976); Proust and Signs, trans. Richard Howard, (Minneapolis: Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 2000).
MARCEL PROUST
R À la recherche du temps perdu, 3 vols., eds. Pierre Clarac and André
Ferré, “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade” (Paris: Gallimard, 1954); Remem-
brance of Th ings Past, 3 vols., trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff , Terence Kil-
martin, and Andreas Mayor (London: Penguin Books, 1983).