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Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Culture, Autobiography, and TranslationChair: Carmen Maria Andras (Research Institute for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Targu-Mures, Romania)
From Comparative Cultural Studies to Post-Literary Study: Gilles Deleuze and Central-European Thought
Severin, Constantin (Suceava University, Suceava, Romania)
In his paper, ''From Comparative Cultural Studies to Post-Literary Study: Gilles Deleuze and Central European Thought," Constantin Severin focuses on multiple similitudes between contemporary trends in the field of comparative studies as practised in Central Europe and Deleuze's method of writing ''post-philosophy." The French philosopher is, by his own admonition, a ''contemporary of the future'' who succeeds in transcending both comparative literature (in his studies on Proust, Kafka, Melville, Carroll, Lawrence, Beckett, etc.) and philosophy through a personal ecriture in which we find striking links between different domains of knowledge and arts. Severin argues that Deleuze's method and the new trends in contemporary comparative studies, even in Central Europe, are based on the same strategy: to look for singularities in various fields of thought and art, then to find intimate connections between them to discover and impose new visions and concepts. Severin is interested in particular in the ways of how such a new empirism, but with focus on holism and with the stress on the creative and not on the interpretative effort could open the way from comparative literature and comparative cultural studies to a framework post-literary study.
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