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Author Slegers, Rosa

Title Courageous vulnerability : ethics and knowledge in Proust, Bergson, Marcel, and James / by Rosa Slegers
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
Series Studies in contemporary phenomenology, 1875-2470 ; v. 2
Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 2.
Contents Introduction; Introduction; Involuntary Memory: An Unusual Pleasure Caused by an Identity of Sensations; Privileged Moments of the Imagination; Pleasurable Certainty and Wonder; Couvercles, Obligation, and Obstacles to the Search; La réalité pressentie: Joy and Sorrow in the Privileged Moment; Felt Knowledge; Epistemic Responsibility; Conclusion; Introduction; Bergson: Intuition and Intellect; The Task of the Artist; The Problem of Language and the Freshness of Experience; Courageous Vulnerability: Preliminary Remarks; Courageous Vulnerability at Work; Conclusion; Introduction
Bergson on James, James on BergsonVagueness and/in Language; Pragmatic Meaning and Truth; The Sentiment of Rationality and Anhedonia; Anhedonia and the Broken World of À la recherche; Marcel's Distinction between Problem and Mystery; Primary and Secondary Reflection, Despair and Hope; Conclusion; Introduction; Stendhal's Crystallization; Albertine a Stone round Which Snow Has Gathered; Love Regained in Absence; Love and the Role of Habit; Love as a Poetical Action: Albertine an Unconscious Thing of Beauty; Love as the Desire to Possess; The Tragedy of Having; The Tragedy of Desire
Presence Made Impossible by l'avoir-implicationConclusion; Introduction; Religion, Mysticism, and the Privileged Moment; Anhedonia Dispelled by Uneven Paving Stones; Mystical Moments in À la recherche; The Place of the Privileged Moment on James' Mystical Ladder; Invitation to a Strenuous Pursuit of Involuntary Memory; Zest and the Mystic Sense of Hidden Meaning; The Will to Believe in Privileged Moments; Conclusion; Introduction; Fidelity and Death in À la recherche; The Will to Believe in Presence; Sincups and Effigies: A Critique of Creative Fidelity
Conclusion: The Difficulty of Being Courageously VulnerableEpilogue; Bibliography; Index
Summary This work develops the ethical attitude of courageous vulnerability through the integration of the phenomenon of involuntary memory in Marcel Proust's work and a variety of closely related themes taken from the philosophies of Henri Bergson, William James, and Gabriel Marcel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 fast
James, William, 1842-1910 fast
Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973 fast
James, William. swd
Proust, Marcel. swd
Bergson, Henri. swd
Marcel, Gabriel. swd
À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust, Marcel) fast
A la recherche du temps perdu gnd
Subject Aesthetics in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
Literature -- Philosophy.
SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness.
Aesthetics in literature
Ethics in literature
Literature -- Philosophy
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004182776
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9789004181885
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