Introduction Part I: Milan Kundera 1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Friedrich Nietzsche and Art as Self- Creation 2. Identity: G. W. F. Hegel's Theory of Recognition Part II: Ian McEwan 3. Atonement: E. P. Thompson and Class Experience 4. Saturday: Julia Kristeva on Abjection Part III: Michel Houellebecq 5. Atomised: Henri Lefebvre and Alienation 6. Platform: Albert Camus and the Absurd Part IV: J.M. Coetzee 7. Disgrace: Thomas Aquinas and the Path to Prudence 8. Diary of a Bad Year: Theodor Adorno on Commitment 9. Conclusion: The Aesthetic Moment
Ian Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.
"This is a brave and ambitious book that combines theoretical sophistication with a direct, positive engagement with literature. It offers a critical engagement with outstanding examples of contemporary literature, with a view to identifying how works by Kundera, McEwan, Houellebecq, and Coetzee present aspects of an aesthetic self, engendering epiphanic responses that allow for radical and intense changes in political and philosophical awareness. The readings of the novels are direct, plausible, and informed by considerable philosophical acuity. This is a book that is well worth reading."--Gary Browning, Oxford Brookes University
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