Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking

Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls �the universe of the novel.� Working through Kundera�s oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms�not applies�philosophical reflection within literature.Reading between Kundera�s work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy�s.Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking is written by Jason M. Wirth and published by Fordham University Press. ISBNs for Commiserating with Devastated Things are 9780823268221, 0823268225 and the print ISBNs are 9780823268207, 0823268209.