{"product_id":"9781350152229","title":"Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel","description":"\u003ch1\u003eProust, Photography, and the Time of Life\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRavaisson, Bergson, and Simmel\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSuzanne Guerlac\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of\u003ci\u003e Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu)\u003c\/i\u003e. Challenging traditional interpretations, she argues that Proust's magnum opus is not a melancholic text, but one that records the dynamic time of change and the complex vitality of the real.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSituating Proust's novel within a modernism of money, and broadening the exploration through references to cultural events and visual technologies (commercial photography, photojournalism, pornography, the regulation of prostitution, the Panama Scandal, and the Dreyfus Affair), this study reveals that Proust's subject is not the esthetic recuperation of loss but rather the adventure of living in time, on both the individual and the social level, at a concrete historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSuzanne Guerlac\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her research interests include 19th- and   20th-century literature, literature and philosophy and contemporary cultural   criticism. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eLiterary   Polemics:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBataille, Sartre, Valéry,   Breton\u003c\/i\u003e; \"La Transgression et le rêve de la théorie\" in \u003ci\u003eDe Tel Quel à L'Infini\u003c\/i\u003e; and   \"Maurice Barrès et la poétique de l'Identité\" in\u003ci\u003e Revue des Sciences Humaines \u003c\/i\u003e(2000).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 November 2020\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350152229\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.84\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332844421260,"sku":"9781350152229","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_08834a9f-a587-4da4-8b60-d3f5b4a71472.jpg?v=1783606717","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350152229","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}