[ebook] [PDF] For Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake 1st Edition By Robert Baines

[ebook] [PDF] For Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake 1st Edition By Robert Baines

Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce’s avant-garde masterpiece.

Philosophy is important in all of Joyce’s works, but it is his final novel that most fully engages with that field. Robert Baines shows the broad range of philosophers Joyce wove into his last work, from Aristotle to Confucius, Bergson to Kant. For each major philosophical allusion in Finnegans Wake, this book explains the original idea and reveals how Joyce first encountered it. Drawing upon extensive research into Joyce’s notebooks and drafts, Baines then shows how Joyce developed and adapted that idea through repeated revisions. From here, the final form of the idea as it appears in The Wake is explored.

In carefully examining Wake‘s key philosophical allusions, essential themes within the novel come into focus, including history, time, language, being, and perception. We see also how those allusions combine to create a network of ideas, thinkers, and texts which has logic and integrity. Ultimately, Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake show that the more one knows of Wake‘s philosophical allusions, the more one can find meaning and reason in this famously perplexing book of the night.

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