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Duncan Large

    Duncan Large je profesorom európskej literatúry a prekladu, ktorý sa zameriava na témy skúmajúce hlboké ľudské motivácie a spoločenské štruktúry. Jeho dielo sa vyznačuje prenikavou analýzou a literárnou presnosťou. Largov prístup k písaniu je starostlivý a premyslený, čo čitateľom ponúka pútavý a intelektuálne stimulujúci zážitok. Jeho literárný význam spočíva v schopnosti odhaľovať zložitosti ľudskej skúsenosti prostredníctvom precízneho jazyka a bohatej imaginácie.

    Nietzsche and Proust
    Nietzsche and metaphor
    • Nietzsche and metaphor

      • 239 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the Post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

      Nietzsche and metaphor
    • This book combines a Nietzschean reading of Proust's novel A la recherche du temps perdu with a Proustian reading of time and transcendence in Nietzsche's philosophy. Drawing in particular on Gilles Deleuze's early studies of the two writers, it argues (against Jacques Derrida and JuliaKristeva) that they pursue a parallel programme of overcoming post-Kantian idealism through an emphasis on the materiality of the body and the 'genealogy' of its interpretations. 'Proust's perspectivism' is analysed in the context of Nietzsche's radical epistemological relativism, the key themes ofinvoluntary memory and eternal recurrence are read together as elements in a shared aesthetics of self-creation, and in conclusion the complex temporalities of Nietzsche and Proust's 'untimely' texts are shown to issue into the problematics of the 'postmodern'.

      Nietzsche and Proust