Impersonality
Seven Essays
272 pages, 2 halftones 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226091310
Published January 2007
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226091327
Published February 2007
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction by Way of William Empson’s Buddha Faces 2. What Counts as Love: Jonathan Edwards’s True Virtue 3. Representing Grief: Emerson’s “Experience” 4. “The Way of Life by Abandonment”: Emerson’s Impersonal 5. The Practice of Attention: Simone Weil’s Performance of Impersonality 6. “The Sea’s Throat”: T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets 7. “Lines of Stones”: The Unpersonified Impersonal in Melville’s Billy Budd Notes Index
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