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Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life - Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel

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Zusatztext In this masterful book, Suzanne Guerlac not only challenges how we read Proust (already an ambitious task), she provides a new and convincing framework for understanding photography. Eschewing the by-now conventional references to Barthes and Benjamin, Guerlac asks us to rediscover the overlooked philosophers from Proust’s era: Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel. Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Klappentext Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu) . 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. Situating 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.Suzanne Guerlac uses the philosophies of Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Georg Simmel and visual technologies to argue that Remembrance of Things Past is a vital, not melancholic text that engages with the time of life, instead of being an aesthetic evasion from the world and time itself. Zusammenfassung Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust’s contemporaries, Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu) . 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. Situating 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Introduction Part I: The Grandmother: Habit, Death and Photography 2.The Double Work of Habit 3.The Intermittent Photograph 4.Camera eyes: The Productive Estrangement of Mechanical Vision Part II: Albertine Breaks the Frame 5. Albertine Emerges from a Blurry Photograph 6. Making Memories (Bergson, not Benjamin). 7. Art and Life: Improvisation 8. Photographic logics and genres 9. Breaking the frame: Writing the Time of Life Part III: Odette (and Swann) - Social Time: Photography and Money 10. Swann's Gift: Class, Money and Photography 11.The Facialization of Odette 11. Money 13. Social Symptoms: Desire and Money (Simmel and Proust) 14. The Two Fables of Proust's Novel 15.Conclusion Bibliography ...

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