Dying of Thinking
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Dying of Thinking

The Last Kingdom IX

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Dying of Thinking

The Last Kingdom IX

About this book

A deeply contemplative work devoted to thinking from one of the foremost literary figures of contemporary France.

Dying of Thinking is the ninth volume of Pascal Quignard's Last Kingdom series. It explores three themes: how thought and death coincide, how thought is close to melancholy, and how thought takes shelter near traumatism. One who thinks, Quignard shows us, "compensates" for a very ancient abandonment. Even as a dream is a meaning whose disorderly, condensed, paradoxical images intuit something which has preceded sleep and which returns in them, thought is a meaning which uses words that are written, re-transcribed, dissected, etymologized and neologized. Throughout the Last Kingdom series, Quignard has sought to experience another way of thinking, one that has nothing to do with philosophy, a way of attaching himself "literally" to texts and of progressing by decomposing the imagery of dreams. Dying of Thinking is the heart of this quest.
 

Information

Publisher
Seagull Books
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781803092423
eBook ISBN
9781803092430
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Quignard’s Copyright page
  2. CHAPTER 1
  3. CHAPTER 2 One Can Die of Thinking I
  4. CHAPTER 3 One Can Die of Thinking II
  5. CHAPTER 4 Nagasena and King Menander
  6. CHAPTER 5 The Path of Thought
  7. CHAPTER 6 On the Train Taking Poincaré to Coutances
  8. CHAPTER 7
  9. CHAPTER 8 Marcel Granet’s Death during the Month of November 1940
  10. CHAPTER 9 Thomas Aquinas’ Nervous Breakdownduring the Month of December 1273
  11. CHAPTER 10 Introversive Trance
  12. CHAPTER 11 Sun
  13. CHAPTER 12 Ariadne’s Thread
  14. CHAPTER 14 The Boomerang
  15. CHAPTER 15 Theoretic and Cynegetic
  16. CHAPTER 16 Fundamental Noetics
  17. CHAPTER 17 On the Greek Crisis
  18. CHAPTER 18 Apuleius on the Road to Alexandria
  19. CHAPTER 19 Socrates’ Death in Athens
  20. CHAPTER 20 Biography and History
  21. CHAPTER 21
  22. CHAPTER 22 Pythagoras at Metapontum
  23. CHAPTER 23 The Imaginary Companion of the Maternal Voice
  24. CHAPTER 24 The Aphantos of the Word
  25. CHAPTER 25 The Sylph
  26. CHAPTER 26
  27. CHAPTER 27 De deo ignoto
  28. CHAPTER 28 The Invention of Conscience
  29. CHAPTER 29 The Crossroads
  30. CHAPTER 30 About Concepts of Things
  31. CHAPTER 31 The Aesthetics of Thought
  32. CHAPTER 32 On the Radiation of Thought
  33. CHAPTER 33 Aseitas
  34. CHAPTER 34 Refugium
  35. CHAPTER 35 The Stove
  36. CHAPTER 36 Locronan

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