東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-...

Gorman, Shawn Thomas.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France)./
Author:	Gorman, Shawn Thomas.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Major Professor: Jeffrey Mehlman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3043293
ISBN:	0493570608

Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France).
Gorman, Shawn Thomas.

Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France). - 268 p.

Major Professor: Jeffrey Mehlman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2002.

Jean-Paul Sartre's critique of Marcel Proust is an important moment of mediation between Continental philosophical thought and the history and theory of French literature. Articulated in isolated passages scattered among many different texts, Sartre's critique of Proust represents a confrontation between essentialism and anti-essentialism, but is also an expression of a profound intellectual debt. I have not attempted to adjudicate the differences between Sartre and Proust with an account of who was right or wrong, but rather, noting that the Sartrian critique of Proust involves a measure of misreading and a measure of assimilation, I have sought to show that it is brilliantly wrong. To discuss the philosophical, psychological, and esthetic ideas at stake in Sartre's critique, I have looked at how they articulate themselves in topoi common to both authors, such as social class, homosexuality, and anti-Semitism. To examine the modes in which this articulation occurs, I have studied key terms in each writer's work that have several, sometimes opposed, meanings.

ISBN: 0493570608Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France).
LDR:03218nam 2200277 a 45 001 926521
005 20110422
008 110422s2002 eng d
020 $a 0493570608
035 $a (UnM)AAI3043293
035 $a AAI3043293
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 1 $a Gorman, Shawn Thomas. $3 1250107
245 1 0 $a Proust's essences and Sartre's anti-essentialism (Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, France).
300 $a 268 p.
500 $a Major Professor: Jeffrey Mehlman.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 0612.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2002.
520 $a Jean-Paul Sartre's critique of Marcel Proust is an important moment of mediation between Continental philosophical thought and the history and theory of French literature. Articulated in isolated passages scattered among many different texts, Sartre's critique of Proust represents a confrontation between essentialism and anti-essentialism, but is also an expression of a profound intellectual debt. I have not attempted to adjudicate the differences between Sartre and Proust with an account of who was right or wrong, but rather, noting that the Sartrian critique of Proust involves a measure of misreading and a measure of assimilation, I have sought to show that it is brilliantly wrong. To discuss the philosophical, psychological, and esthetic ideas at stake in Sartre's critique, I have looked at how they articulate themselves in topoi common to both authors, such as social class, homosexuality, and anti-Semitism. To examine the modes in which this articulation occurs, I have studied key terms in each writer's work that have several, sometimes opposed, meanings.
520 $a Semantic overdetermination is the hallmark of the concept of the essence. The apparent opposition of essentialism and anti-essentialism is subsumed by polyvalent terms because the essence itself is the locus of both identity and difference. Sartre criticizes Proust for valorizing interiority, but my examination shows that essentialism engages with exteriority, while anti-essentialism fails as a critique of interiority because the essence is where interior and exterior meet. The first chapter examines the automobile as a metaphorical and psychological figure for permutations that the concept of the essence undergoes in Proust. The second identifies Sartre's anti-essentialism in a series of overdetermined terms and metaphors in <italic>L'Etre et le néant </italic>, and relates them to Sartre's references to Proust. The third chapter examines Proust's essences more closely, noting that Proust's thought very much resembles Husserl's, and therefore (ironically), Sartre's own. The last two chapters are a look at how essentialism plays a productive role in Proust's writing and how anti-essentialism, on the contrary, leads Sartre to make a number of miscalculations when discussing Proust as a bourgeois, Jewish, and homosexual writer.
590 $a School code: 0017.
650 4 $a Literature, Romance. $3 1019014
690 $a 0313
710 2 0 $a Boston University. $3 1017454
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 63-02A.
790 $a 0017
790 1 0 $a Mehlman, Jeffrey, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2002
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3043293