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Impersonality: Seven Essays

Sharon Cameron

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Description: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 modernismOCowriters 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 oneOCOs voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. OC To consent to being anonymous, OCO Weil wrote, OC is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels?OCO Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibilityOCofrom a OC truthOCO 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. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Impersonality: Seven Essays. To get started finding Impersonality: Seven Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 281

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226091333

Description: 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 modernismOCowriters 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 oneOCOs voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. OC To consent to being anonymous, OCO Weil wrote, OC is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels?OCO Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibilityOCofrom a OC truthOCO 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. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Impersonality: Seven Essays. To get started finding Impersonality: Seven Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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