Mortal No - Frederick John Hoffman

Mortal No

Death and the Modern Imagination
Buch | Hardcover
524 Seiten
2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-65032-6 (ISBN)
229,45 inkl. MwSt
Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These e
Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CONTENTS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS, pg. 1*1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM, pg. 23*2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE, pg. 94*3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE, pg. 139*4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT, pg. 158*5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER, pg. 179*6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE, pg. 202*7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II, pg. 224*8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, pg. 267*9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE, pg. 291*10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF, pg. 317*11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME, pg. 341*12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE, pg. 393*13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING, pg. 424*14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF, pg. 453*INDEX, pg. 495

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Gewicht 624 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-691-65032-2 / 0691650322
ISBN-13 978-0-691-65032-6 / 9780691650326
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