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1. Proust as Philosopher

   The Art of Metaphor

   By Miguel de Beistegui

   Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst many other themes. Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor is the first book to try and connect Proust’s implicit ontology of experience with the...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Aesthetics After Metaphysics

   From Mimesis to Metaphor

   By Miguel Beistegui

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Philosophy and Tragedy

   Edited by Simon Sparks, Miguel de Beistegui

   Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy

   From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet...

   Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge
4. Heidegger and the Political

   By Miguel de Beistegui

   Series: Thinking the Political

   Recent studies of Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism have often presented Heidegger's philosophy as a forerunner to his political involvement. This has occured often to the detriment of the highly complex nature of Heidegger's relation to the political. Heidegger and the Political...

   Published November 12th 1997 by Routledge