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'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new

English literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Littérature anglaise --- --XIXe s., --- Nonsense --- --Carroll, Lewis pseudonyme de Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898) --- Œuvre --- --Langage --- --Philosophie --- --Nonsense literature, English --- 5340 --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- 820-7 --- 820 "18" --- Engelse literatuur: humor; satire --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820 "18" Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820-7 Engelse literatuur: humor; satire --- Nonsense literature, English --- English nonsense literature --- Nonsense literature, English, [etc.] --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- --Carroll, Lewis, --- Theory, etc. --- XIXe s., 1801-1900 --- Langage --- Philosophie --- Nonsense literature, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- NON-SENS (PHILOSOPHIE) --- LITTERATURE NONSENSIQUE (NON-SENS) --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- THEORIE, ETC.

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Language and languages --- Philosophy, Marxist. --- Dialectical materialism --- Langage et langues --- Philosophie marxiste --- Matérialisme dialectique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Philosophy, Marxist --- Philosophy --- Matérialisme dialectique --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Philosophie du langage --- Sciences sociales --- Psycholinguistique --- Sociolinguistique --- Analyse marxiste

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Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Pragmatics

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Shelley, Mary W. --- Frankenstein (Fictitious character) in literature --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Frankenstein --- Shelley, Mary --- Frankenstein (Personnage fictif) dans la littérature --- Characters --- Frankenstein. --- Frankenstein, Victor --- In literature. --- Myth in literature --- Philosophy --- CDL --- 82 --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- LINGUISTIQUE --- SEMIOTIQUE --- DISCOURS

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Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? And to what extent does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? Anyone who has read contemporary European philosophers has had to ask such questions. This book is the first attempt to answer them, by considering the 'strong readings' Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze impose on the texts they read. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature (where literature is a mere object of analysis), but in philosophy and

Literature --- Philosophy, French --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Theory --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Badiou, Alain. --- Badiou, Alain --- Badiou, A. --- Badiu, Alen, --- Badiou, Alan, --- Bādiyū, Ālān, --- Бадиу, Ален, --- باديو, آلان, --- באדיו, אלן, --- アラン・バディウ, --- 巴迪欧, 阿兰, --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- دولوز، جيل --- Delezi, Jier,