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Philip Kitcher

Joyce's Kaleidoscope

An Invitation to Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce's Ulysses, once regarded as obscure and obscene, is now viewed as one of the masterpieces of world literature. Yet Joyce's final novel, Finnegans Wake, to which he devoted seventeen years, remains virtually unread, except by scholarly specialists. Its linguistic novelties, apparently based on an immense learning that few can share, make it appear impenetrable.Joyce's Kaleidoscope attempts to dissolve the darkness and to invite lovers of literature to engage with Finnegans Wake. Philip Kitcher proposes that the Wake has at its core an age-old philosophical question, What makes a life worth living?, and that Joyce explores that ques… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-977480-7
  • EAN: 9780199774807
  • Produktnummer: 13950029
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 17'698 KB

Über den Autor


Currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Philip Kitcher is a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include The Advancement of Science (OUP); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP); In Mendel's Mirror; and Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring.

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