Impersonality: Seven EssaysUniversity of Chicago Press, 2009-11-15 - 272 psl. Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism—writers for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no one’s voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. “To consent to being anonymous,” Weil wrote, “is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels?” Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibility—from a “truth” that has no social foundation. Impersonality investigates the uncompromising nature of writing that suspends, eclipses, and even destroys the person as a social, political, or individual entity, of writing that engages with personal identity at the moment when its usual markers vanish or dissolve. |
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Rezultatai 1–5 iš 73
viii psl.
... human being or natural person or because he is a corporate body or artificial person. (For Hobbes an artificial person must also be a natural person.) It does not, however, presume anything of substance, nor did the word persona from ...
... human being or natural person or because he is a corporate body or artificial person. (For Hobbes an artificial person must also be a natural person.) It does not, however, presume anything of substance, nor did the word persona from ...
ix psl.
... human particular . Impersonality disrupts elementary categories we suppose to be fundamental to specifying human distinctiveness . Or rather , we don't know what the im of impersonality means . I shall argue it means different things ...
... human particular . Impersonality disrupts elementary categories we suppose to be fundamental to specifying human distinctiveness . Or rather , we don't know what the im of impersonality means . I shall argue it means different things ...
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... human and the nonhuman results in characters possessing the same plastic and contradictory features of the universe to which the charac- terological is irrelevant. This has a corollary in Eliot's Four Quartets in the erosion of ...
... human and the nonhuman results in characters possessing the same plastic and contradictory features of the universe to which the charac- terological is irrelevant. This has a corollary in Eliot's Four Quartets in the erosion of ...
xii psl.
... human culture and , specifically , no Christian religion . We see it in Emerson's cool assessment that “ persons [ are ] a conveniency in household matters , " but " the divine man does not respect them " ( NR 580 ) . Thus one source of ...
... human culture and , specifically , no Christian religion . We see it in Emerson's cool assessment that “ persons [ are ] a conveniency in household matters , " but " the divine man does not respect them " ( NR 580 ) . Thus one source of ...
xiii psl.
... It will have become apparent that while certain propositions loosely pertain to all of the writers I consider an unbinding from the personal manifested as an unbinding from the human ; category crossings that PREFACE 。 X111.
... It will have become apparent that while certain propositions loosely pertain to all of the writers I consider an unbinding from the personal manifested as an unbinding from the human ; category crossings that PREFACE 。 X111.
Turinys
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Jonathan Edwardss The Virtue | 21 |
Emersons Experience | 53 |
Emersons Impersonal | 79 |
Simone Weils Performance of Impersonality | 108 |
T S Eliots Four Quartets | 144 |
The Unpersonified Impersonal in Melvilles Billy Budd | 180 |
Notes | 205 |
Index | 247 |
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affect argue attention beauty benevolence Billy Budd Billy's body Brunetto Buddha faces Buddhist called character cited parenthetically Claggart claim constitute contradiction Dante dead death dissociation distinction divine Divinity School Address East Coker Edwards's Eliot Emerson's essays Empson entity essay's Essays and Lectures existence eyes fact fate feeling Four Quartets Further references genius ghost grief happiness hereafter abbreviated Herman Melville human idea identified imagine imperative impersonal individual instance Joel Porte John Haffenden Jonathan Edwards Little Gidding look loss manifestation Melville Melville's mind mistake moral nature object Over-soul pain Parfit particular passage perception personal identity philosophy poem Press question Ralph Waldo Emerson references are cited reiterated relation repr representation Schopenhauer sense sentence Simone Weil soul speaker specifically spiritual suttas T. S. Eliot things thought tion trans True Virtue understanding Univ Vere violence voice Weil’s William Empson words
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