Melencolia Illa Heroica: Françoise Proust, Walter Benjamin and `Catastrophe in Permanence’: In Memoriam F.P. 1947-1998

Gibson, Andrew

(2008)

Gibson, Andrew (2008) Melencolia Illa Heroica: Françoise Proust, Walter Benjamin and `Catastrophe in Permanence’: In Memoriam F.P. 1947-1998. Static, 7

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Abstract

Françoise Proust’s essential points of reference are Kant and Walter Benjamin. Alain Badiou ignores the extraordinary and sometimes beautiful dark power of Proust’s work on Benjamin. As is clear, however, from both Daniel Bensaïd’s interview with Proust and the title of Élizabeth Lemirre and Catherine Perret’s memorial volume (Une philosophie de la résistance: Françoise Proust), the concept of Proust that is most likely to become the dominant one is not Badiou’s, but rather the concept of her as above all a philosopher of `resistance’.

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Item TypeJournal Article
TitleMelencolia Illa Heroica: Françoise Proust, Walter Benjamin and `Catastrophe in Permanence’: In Memoriam F.P. 1947-1998
AuthorsGibson, Andrew
Uncontrolled KeywordsFrançoise Proust, Walter Benjamin, Kant, Badiou, catastrophe, history, language, truth, European philosophy
DepartmentsFaculty of Arts\English

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Preprint of a paper to be published online in Static 7: Catastrophe: inhouse journal of the London Consortium. Copyright 2008 Andrew Gibson

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