In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Lessons of the Hand
2. The Lime-Tree Bower and the Virgin of Amiens
3. Boundaries
4. Holding and Grasping
5. The Room
6. Addiction
7. Transgression
8. The Lesson of the Hand (2)
9. Praesentia
10. The King's Touch
11. The Therapy of Distance
12. The Therapy of Distance (2)
13. Relics
14. The Girdle and the River
15. 'A Goose which Has Grown in Scotland on a Tree'
16. Possessing Power
17. The Jewish Bride
18. First Steps
19. Kinetic Melodies
20. Kinetic Melodies (2)
21. Walker and World
22. Boundaries (2)
23. The Room (2)
Appendix
Notes
Index