Dying of Thinking – The Last Kingdom IX

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France. Dying of Thinking is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignard’s Last Kingdom series. It explores three themes: how thought and death coincide, how thought is close to melancholy, and how thought takes shelter near traumatism. One who thinks, Quignard shows us, “compensates” for a very ancient abandonment. Even as a dream is a meaning whose disorderly, condensed, paradoxical images intuit something which has preceded sleep and which returns in them, thought is a meaning which uses words that are written, re-transcribed, dissected, etymologized and neologized. Throughout the Last Kingdom series, Quignard has sought to experience another way of thinking, one that has nothing to do with philosophy, a way of attaching himself “literally” to texts and of progressing by decomposing the imagery of dreams. Dying of Thinking is the heart of this quest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-05
Mått122 x 198 x 23 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
FörlagSeagull Books London Ltd
ISBN9781803092423
ÖversättareJohn Taylor

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Chapter 1Chapter 2: One can die of thinking (1)Chapter 3: One can die of thinking (2)Chapter 4: Nagasena and King MenanderChapter 5: The path of thoughtChapter 6: On the train taking Poincaré to CoutancesChapter 7Chapter 8: Marcel Granet’s death during the month of November 1940Chapter 9: Thomas Aquinas’ nervous breakdown during the month of December 1273Chapter 10: Introversive TranceChapter 11: SunChapter 12: Ariadne’s threadChapter 13: Ariadne’s deathChapter 14: The boomerangChapter 15: Theoretic and cynegeticChapter 16: Fundamental NoeticsChapter 17: On the Greek crisisChapter 18: Apuleius on the road to AlexandriaChapter 19: Socrates’ death in AthensChapter 20: Biography and historyChapter 21Chapter 22: Pythagoras at MetapontumChapter 23: The imaginary companion of the maternal voiceChapter 24: The aphantos of the wordChapter 25: The sylphChapter 26Chapter 27: De deo ignotoChapter 28: The invention of conscienceChapter 29: The crossroadsChapter 30: About concepts of thingsChapter 31: The aesthetics of thoughtChapter 32: On the radiation of thoughtChapter 33: AseitasChapter 34: RefugiumChapter 35: The stoveChapter 36: Locronan