Proustian Mind

Anna Elsner is an Assistant Professor of French Literature and Culture at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is the co-editor of Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (2009), Medicine and Literature (forthcoming), and the author of Mourning and Creativity in Proust (2017).Thomas Stern is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College London, UK. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Ethics (2020), and Philosophy and Theatre (Routledge, 2013), and the editor of The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (2019), and The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting (2017).

• Introduction Anna Elsner and Thomas Stern Part 1: Life and Works 1. Marcel Proust: A Student of Philosophy William Carter 2. Proust’s Philosophical Training Luc Fraisse Part 2: Metaphysics & Epistemology 3. The Mind in Time: Proust, Involuntary Memory, and the Adventure in Perception Garry L. Hagberg 4. In Search of Lost Place Anna Elsner 5. "Only Through Time Time is Conquered": Proust on Death Andrew Huddleston 6. The Self Ben Colburn 7. Knowledge Adam Watt 8. The Pursuit of Uncertainty: Knowledge, Deferral and Self-Defeat in Proust Richard Moran Part 3: Mind and Language 9. Memory Simon Kemp 10. Proustian Habit Thomas Stern 11. Subjectivity: A Proustian Problem Robert B. Pippin 12. Speech Michael Lucey Part 4: Aesthetics 13. Contemplating a Proustian Library Virginie Greene 14. The experience of beauty in Proust – a Freudian account Julia Peters and Anna-Lisa Sander 15. The Arts Jennifer Rushworth 16. Art and the Life-World: The Duck, the Rabbit and the Madeleine Gary Kemp Part 5: Ethics 17. Proust and the Philosophy of Love Martin Buijs 18. Proust and Lying: Ethics and Aesthetics David Ellison 19. "Each of us is indeed alone": Vulnerability in In Search of Lost Time Roos Slegers 20. Proust’s Abraham, the Other L. Scott Lerner Part 6: Gender and Sexuality 21. The Logic of Gomorrah: Proust and the Subversion of Identities Justine Balibar 22. Proust on Desire Satisfaction Robbie Kubala 23. Proustian Jealousy Elisabeth Ladenson Part 7: In conversation with predecessors, contemporaries and successors 24. Proust and Romanticism Michael N. Forster 25. Proust and Schopenhauer David Bather Woods 26. Proust and Bergson: Fierce Criticality Suzanne Guerlac 27. Proust and Nietzsche on Self-Fashioning: Towards a Post-Metaphysical Reading of Proust Antoine Panaioti 28. The alter ego: Merleau-Ponty Anne Simon 29. Proust the Phenomenologist: Sartre and Beauvoir as Readers of Proust Lior Levy 30. Proust-Machine: Gilles Deleuze Thomas Baldwin and Patrick ffrench 31. Proust and Philosophical Influence Sebastian Gardner. Index

"Interdisciplinarity is often praised, less frequently criticized, in both cases irrelevantly, since it so rarely actually exists. The Proustian Mind, which doesn’t just set philosophy and literary studies side by side, but genuinely erases the boundary between them, is a very welcome exception, and one could do far worse than bunker down for a week with it…" - Ben Roth, MIND"...all of the sections feature countless insights as to Proust's relevance in various dimensions of philosophy..." - Bryan Counter, Studies in the Novel