Badiou and Deleuze read literature / Jean-Jacques Lecercle.

Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disjunctive Synthesis -- 2 A Question of Style -- 3 Deleuze Reads [Marcel] Proust -- 4 Badiou Reads [Stephane] Mallarme -- 5 A Modernist Canon? Badiou and Deleuze Read [Samuel] Beckett -- 6 Reading the Fantastic after Badiou and Deleuze -- Conclusion: Aesthetics or Inaesthetics?

"Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature, where literature is a mere object of analysis, but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix."--Publisher.