PROUST’S ARTISTIC ONTOLOGY : A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty’s and Deleuze’s Readings of Proust’s Recherche

Author(s)

  • Judith Wambacq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.881

Keywords:

Expression, immanence, deformation, a-chronological time

Abstract

In this article, I examine how Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze read Proust. It is not only remarkable that Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze refer to exactly the same passages of the Recherche, but they also read them in a similar way. This is all the more striking because Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze are usually subsumed under different schools of thought. This article sketches the artistic ontology both philosophers see illustrated in the Recherche.

Author Biography

  • Judith Wambacq

    Judith Wambacq is postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University, Belgium. She also teaches philosophy at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels. She is the author of Thinking Between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty (Bloomsbury, 2014).

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Published

2013-12-13

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013): Marcel Proust's Network

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

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How to Cite

“PROUST’S ARTISTIC ONTOLOGY : A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty’s and Deleuze’s Readings of Proust’s Recherche” (2013) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 7(2), pp. 139–148. doi:10.18352/relief.881.