Renunciation

Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists

Ross Posnock

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$49.50 • £39.95 • €44.50

ISBN 9780674967830

Publication Date: 01/04/2016

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432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Overview
1. William James, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Jackson Pollock, Bob Dylan, Susan Sontag
2. J. D. Salinger, Thomas Merton, Ad Reinhardt
3. Søren Kierkegaard, Regine Olsen, Franz Kafka, Felice Bauer, Philip Rieff, Susan Sontag
4. Glenn Gould, Thomas Bernhard
5. Ludwig Wittgenstein
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein
7. George Oppen, Paul Celan
8. Agnes Martin
Acknowledgments
Works Cited and Consulted
Index

Awards & Accolades

Shortlist, 2017 Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2016

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016

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