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Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book
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Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Timothy O'Leary

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From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book
  • Author Timothy O'Leary
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Continnuum-3PL, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2009-10-27
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780826495952 / 0826495958
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Ethics in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010275012
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.95

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2010, Page 249

About the 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. He is the author of Foucault and the Art of Ethics (Continuum 2006).

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