1st Edition

Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

Edited By Fernanda Negrete Copyright 2024
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches. Contributions to this volume engage with the philosophical dimension of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. The book features essays by renowned and... Read more

Introduction: Philosophy with Clarice Lispector
Fernanda Negrete

 

I. Apprenticeships

 

1. To write is to think [the – is] being

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

 

2. Tracing an ethics of risk with Clarice Lispector

Fernanda Negrete

 

3. Lispector’s halo: Life contemplating itself in The Hour of the Star

Daae Jung and João Paulo Guimarães

 

II. Subtle Revolutions

 

4. We are all the smallest woman in the world: Figures of the immanent and the neuter in Clarice Lispector

Luz Horne

 

5. “When the egg breaks, the chicken bleeds”: Unsettling coloniality through fertility in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and the Chronicles

Rodante van der Waal, Kim Schoof and Aukje van Rooden

 

6. In the shadows of the cosmos: On the margins of Clarice Lispector’s creative worlds

Tyler Correia

 

III. Uncommon experiences

 

7. Affective consisting in Lispector’s An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Irving Goh

 

8. “To Enter the Core of Death”: Listening to the Rhythm of Death in Água Viva and The Passion According to G.H. alongside the Psychoanalytic Clinic

Marta Aleksandrowicz

 

9. The Failure of Language amidst the Joy of Grace: Reading Lispector’s Água Viva as a Philosophy of (Non)religious Insight

Colby Dickinson

 

IV. On the Edge of Thought

 

10. All of Nothing: “Dishumanization” in Lispector and Heidegger

Krzysztof Ziarek

 

11. Clarice Lispector’s Philosophy of Time

Paula Marchesini

 

12. “Could it be that what I write to you is behind thought?” (Dialogue with Água Viva by Clarice Lispector)

Jean-Luc Nancy

Biography

Fernanda Negrete is the author of The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art (2020). She directs the University at Buffalo’s Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture and coedits its journal Penumbr(a). She coedited Beckett beyond Words (Samuel Beckett Today/aujourd’hui 30.2).