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The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze

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This book explores the work of spectres in Denis Diderot's Salons , Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu , and Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon, logique de la sensation . It examines the extent to which Diderot, Proust and Deleuze are able to resist the 'Marcellus complex'.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published March 4, 2011

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Thomas Baldwin

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Several different authors on Goodreads are named Thomas Baldwin, including an aeronaut, at least one theologian, a philosopher, a novelist, an agriculturist and a self-help writer. They wrote between the 18th century and today.

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November 5, 2013
I was really excited to read this. Turns out I shouldn't have been. Despite the wealth of quotations – and work with Georges Didi-Huberman, who I'm very keen to see adopted in English-language scholarship – the book never caught, an argument never truly appeared, and I felt let down. Sigh.
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