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Renunciation : acts of abandonment by writers, philosophers, and artists / Ross Posnock.
LIBRA BD435 .P68 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Posnock, Ross, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Renunciation (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part 1 William James, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarmé, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Jackson Pollock, Bob Dylan, Susan Sontag 67
- Part 2 J. D. Salinger, Thomas Merton, Ad Reinhardt 135
- Part 3 Søren Kierkegaard, Regine Olsen, Franz Kafka, Felice Bauer, Philip Rieff, Susan Sontag 208
- Part 4 Glenn Gould, Thomas Bernhard 238
- Part 5 Ludwig Wittgenstein 264
- Part 6 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein 282
- Part 7 George Oppen, Paul Celan 330
- Part 8 Agnes Martin 364.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674967830
- 0674967836
- OCLC:
- 910802202
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