Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness
Sam Bootle
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 54 Legenda 25 May 2018 • 180pp ISBN: 978-1-781886-47-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781886-48-9 (paperback, 23 December 2019) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781886-49-6 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernFrenchPoetryPhilosophystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. In late nineteenth-century France, the pessimist philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann was often portrayed as a disease-like force infecting the French body politic. For many French writers, however, German philosophy’s ‘otherness’ was a source of fascination, and foremost among them was Jules Laforgue. This monograph, the first full-length study of Laforgue in English for 25 years, reveals how Laforgue’s formative encounter with Schopenhauer and Hartmann was crucially informed by ideas of otherness, ideas that were associated not only with their work but also with German culture in general, and with the Eastern thought that both philosophers drew on. Through close textual analysis, the book shows how Laforgue’s dynamic engagement with philosophical thought – manifest in his highly innovative verse as well as his unpublished notes – is bound up with a challenge to nationalistic thinking. Sam Bootle is an Assistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Durham.
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Bibliography entry: Bootle, Sam, Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness, Research Monographs in French Studies, 54 (Legenda, 2018) First footnote reference: 35 Sam Bootle, Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness, Research Monographs in French Studies, 54 (Legenda, 2018), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Bootle, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Bootle, Sam. 2018. Laforgue, Philosophy, and Ideas of Otherness, Research Monographs in French Studies, 54 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Bootle 2018: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Bootle 2018: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Laforgue-Philosophy-Ideas-Otherness www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-54 |