French novelist Marcel Proust made well-known “involuntary memory,” a unusual form of reminiscence that works no matter if one is keen or now not and that provides a remodeled recollection of previous event. greater than a century later, the Proustian inspiration of involuntary reminiscence has now not been totally explored nor its implications understood. through supplying clarifying examples taken from Proust’s novel and by way of commenting on them utilizing the paintings of French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Italian thinker Mauro Carbone translates involuntary reminiscence because the human college delivering the involuntary production of our principles throughout the transformation of prior event. This rethinking of the normal approach of conceiving rules and their genesis as separated from good experience—as has been performed in Western idea for the reason that Plato—allows the writer to advertise a brand new conception of information, one that is better exemplified through literature and paintings even more than philosophy.

“An unheard of Deformation is a superb integration of a sequence of essays that Carbone has devoted to the subject matter of brilliant rules in fresh years.” — Symposium

“…Carbone has written an excellent and leading edge paintings. greater than a philosophical interpretation of Proust in keeping with the paintings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, the examine treads new flooring for epistemology, providing a brand new conception of principles … this is often an enormous ebook for philosophy in addition to literature … hugely recommended.” — CHOICE

Mauro Carbone is Professor of Aesthetics on the collage of Lyon III, France. he's the writer of a number of books, together with The considering the practical: Merleau-Ponty’s A-Philosophy.

Niall Keane is a postdoctoral researcher on the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology in Leuven, Belgium.