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Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Privileged Moments and Felt Knowledge 11
Introduction 11
Involuntary Memory: An Unusual Pleasure Caused by an Identity of Sensations 12
Privileged Moments of the Imagination 19
Pleasurable Certainty and Wonder 24
Couvercles, Obligation, and Obstacles to the Search 28
La réalité pressentie: Joy and Sorrow in the Privileged Moment 32
Felt Knowledge 40
Epistemic Responsibility 44
Conclusion 47
Chapter 2 Courageous Vulnerability and the Bergsonian Artist 49
Introduction 49
Bergson: Intuition and Intellect 50
The Task of the Artist 59
The Problem of Language and the Freshness of Experience 67
Courageous Vulnerability: Preliminary Remarks 71
Courageous Vulnerability at Work 77
Conclusion 80
Chapter 3 Vagueness and Mystery 83
Introduction 83
Bergson on James, James on Bergson 84
Vagueness and/in Language 89
Pragmatic Meaning and Truth 96
The Sentiment of Rationality and Anhedonia 104
Anhedonia and the Broken World of À la recherche 113
Marcel's Distinction between Problem and Mystery 118
Primary and Secondary Reflection, Despair and Hope 122
Conclusion 125
Chapter 4 Crystallization and the Tragedy of Having (a Lover) 127
Introduction 127
Stendhal's Crystallization 128
Albertine a Stone round Which Snow Has Gathered 130
Love Regained in Absence 135
Love and the Role of Habit 137
Love as a Poetical Action: Albertine an Unconscious Thing of Beauty 140
Love as the Desire to Possess 143
The Tragedy of Having 147
The Tragedy of Desire 154
Presence Made Impossible by l'avoir-implication 156
Conclusion 164
Chapter 5 The Will to Believe in Privileged Moments 167
Introduction 167
Religion, Mysticism, and the Privileged Moment 168
Anhedonia Dispelled by Uneven Paving Stones 172
Mystical Moments in À la recherche 176
The Place of the Privileged Moment on James' Mystical Ladder 179
Invitation to a Strenuous Pursuit of Involuntary Memory 182
Zest and the Mystic Sense of Hidden Meaning 187
The Will to Believe in Privileged Moments 191
Conclusion 202
Chapter 6 The Difficulty of Being Courageously Vulnerable 205
Introduction 205
Fidelity and Death in À la recherché 206
The Will to Believe in Presence 213
Sincups and Effigies: A Critique of Creative Fidelity 218
Conclusion: The Difficulty of Being Courageously Vulnerable 228
Epilogue 237
Bibliography 243
Index 247
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reviewed Courageous Vulnerability: Ethics and Knowledge in Proust, Bergson, Marcel, and James on July 15, 2012
Courageous Vulnerability: Ethics and Knowledge in Proust, Bergson, Marcel, and James
This work bears a great historical importance, Klossowski being one of the seminal figures in taking seriously the study of Sade as a philosophical figure. But this work retains its import even today. It may aid the reader not only in thinking through the erotic philsophy of Sade, but it also speaks to the thinking at play in Klossowski's own works, especially his fictions.
As Klossowski notes, Sade's thought is the thought of Man pushed to its limits - disclosing the essence of Man in all its violent negation; the inherent monstrosity that rages in the heart of each and every one of us. By seeking to explore this monstrous heart, the being who transgresses being Man in order to most fully be Man, in becoming the monstrous singularity in affrontation of God, language, and all universal or general norms or laws.
In striving towards the impossible through the negative heart of humanity, Sade takes up the imagination as a means of denying action - a useless writing that careens into madness only to set before the reader an intimate image of their ownmost egoity. The creative-destructive power of this monsteous writing opens up a proliferation of possibilities that God's creation and actuality render impossible. At work in Sade's works is the revolutionary heart, in revolt against God, utitlity, telos and the Good. And, contradictory enough, this shattering of reason works itself out, working itself into the exhaustion of worklessness, through the extremity of reason itself - the violent madness that is the essence of reason, moving ever about its limits, in conjunction with the monstrosity that is the essential limit of humanity. Thus does Sade take the thought of his age, of the Enlightenment, to its very end - and in doing so he destroys it, or rather, allows it to destroy itself, as it must. Sade is truly a son of the Revolution, his thought the rotten sun of their reason, his works the unweaving of their radical thread. Sade ever remains, in the shadows of the Enlightenment, at its limits and thus its heart, the fil(s) radical.
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