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Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book by Timothy O'Leary
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*This monograph develops a unique approach to thinking about the
transformative power of literature by drawing upon the much-neglected
concept of experience in Foucault's work. *
- Imprint: Continuum
- Pub. date: 21 Oct 2009
- ISBN: 9780826495952
192 Pages, hardcover World rights *£60.00
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Description
*Foucault and Fiction* develops a unique approach to thinking about the
power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of
experience in Foucault’s work.
For Foucault, an ‘experience book’ is a book which transforms our experience
by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O’Leary develops and
applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works
of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he
suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering
extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and
Heaney, O’Leary draws on Foucault’s concept of experience as well as the
work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources,
he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to
readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new
insights into Foucault’s mature philosophy and an improved understanding of
what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Literature, experience, and ethics
2. The ungoverned tongue: Seamus Heaney
3. Foucault’s turn from literature
4. Language, culture, and confusion: Brian Friel
5. Foucault’s concept of experience
6. Re-making experience: James Joyce
7. Experimental subjects: Swift and Beckett
8. Ethics and fiction
Bibliography
Index
Author:Timothy O'Leary is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Hong Kong. He has spent several years working in the Foucault
Archives and has published on Foucault, aesthetics and literature.
Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book by Timothy O'Leary
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*This monograph develops a unique approach to thinking about the
transformative power of literature by drawing upon the much-neglected
concept of experience in Foucault's work. *
- Imprint: Continuum
- Pub. date: 21 Oct 2009
- ISBN: 9780826495952
192 Pages, hardcover World rights *£60.00
*
Description
*Foucault and Fiction* develops a unique approach to thinking about the
power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of
experience in Foucault’s work.
For Foucault, an ‘experience book’ is a book which transforms our experience
by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O’Leary develops and
applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works
of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he
suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering
extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and
Heaney, O’Leary draws on Foucault’s concept of experience as well as the
work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources,
he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to
readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new
insights into Foucault’s mature philosophy and an improved understanding of
what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Literature, experience, and ethics
2. The ungoverned tongue: Seamus Heaney
3. Foucault’s turn from literature
4. Language, culture, and confusion: Brian Friel
5. Foucault’s concept of experience
6. Re-making experience: James Joyce
7. Experimental subjects: Swift and Beckett
8. Ethics and fiction
Bibliography
Index
Author:Timothy O'Leary is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Hong Kong. He has spent several years working in the Foucault
Archives and has published on Foucault, aesthetics and literature.