Rocket and lightship: essays on literature and ideas [First edition] 9780393243468, 9780393243475, 0393243478

Preface -- Art over biology -- Darwinism at 150 -- Francis Fukuyama and the beginning of history -- The last men: Houell

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Table of contents :
Preface --
Art over biology --
Darwinism at 150 --
Francis Fukuyama and the beginning of history --
The last men: Houellebecq, Sebald, McEwan --
Under the volcano: Giacomo Leopardi --
Up from cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk --
The deadly jester: Slavoj Žižek --
Still the good war --
Beware of pity: Hannah Arendt --
The interpreter: Walter Benjamin --
Alfred Kazin's clamor --
Susan Sontag's seriousness --
The importance of being earnest: David Foster Wallace --
The lesson of the master: Cynthia Ozick --
Liberation and liberalism: E.M. Forster --
Zadie Smith and the future of the novel --
The turbulence of Saul Bellow --
Proust between halachah and aggadah --
Rocket and lightship.

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