Ever been curious about all the fuss surrounding Proust's gargantuan novel? This is a weekly livestream series designed to make it as accessible as possible. It provides a close analysis of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" discussing what makes it such a special piece of literature, how ahead of its time it was in terms of its psychological insight, and how reading it can provide great "textual healing" for the stresses of everyday life. #Proust #bookclub #literaryanalysis
Curated by: Readers of the Lost Art (18 videos)
Paul & Stuart chat about one of Paul's favourite philosophers, the American thinker Richard Rorty and his book "Contingency, irony, and solidarity" (1989). In particular, we look at Chapter 5 - "Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger" to bring together the Proust and Heidegger material we've been looking at on the Channel recently. Rorty uses the terms "contingency", "irony", and "solidarity" to describe specific aspects of his philosophical outlook and we explain and explore the significance of these concepts for our understanding of what it is to be an individual and the unique role novels play in human self-creation. #philosophy #heidegger #proust #selfcreation #nietzsche