Malcolm Bowie (1943–2007)
Författare till Proust Among the Stars
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Bowie, Malcolm McNaughtan
- Födelsedag
- 1943-05-05
- Avled
- 2007-01-28
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Land (för karta)
- UK
- Födelseort
- Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
- Dödsort
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Utbildning
- University of Edinburgh (MA)
University of Sussex (PhD) - Yrken
- Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Organisationer
- Society of French Studies
British Comparative Literature Association
Association of University Professors of French - Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow, British Academy
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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Statistik
- Verk
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 300
- Popularitet
- #78,268
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 27
- Språk
- 3
The only piece that promises much of value is the title essay, which contrasts Freud's fascination with memory and the past, Augustine's notion of lived time, and Heidegger's notion of futurity. Bowie focuses most of his attention on the influence of Heidegger's concept of time on Lacan, although this last part is desperately lacking in focus.
The other pieces in the book are utterly bland and have little or no connection to Lacan: a meditation on Freud's relationship to art (Ch.2), a technical and rather pointless comparison of painting and music (Ch.3), and an inexplicable discussion of Freud's relationship to the "European unconscious" (Ch.4).
The one redeeming feature of the book is its appendix, which features an interview in which he puts forward ideas in a manner that is a thousand times more interesting and appealing than any of the earlier content in the book. In fact, this interview is probably the only part of the book worth reading; the rest is pretentious, albeit highly-educated nonsense.… (mer)