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Book SynopsisBuilding upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors.
Trade Review“A superb investigation, through careful reading of examples of what it means to be
outside or to experience the outside.”
---—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, IrvineThose who consider, for example, Joyce's Finnegans Wake an inexhaustible vein of gold (as opposed to a verbal junkyard) will find Sussman's vertiginous prose illuminating and exhilerating . . . * —Choice *
Explores ideas of exteriority and interiority in literary and philosophical writings, including works by James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, William Faulkner, and James Joyce. * —The Chronicle of Higher Education *
. . . Sussman's highly original, trailblazing work. * —Symploke *
“Henry Sussman’s Idylls of the Wanderer invites the reader to join in a journey of discovery that knows neither fixed goal nor certain return. Instead, each new twist and turn reveals unexpected perspectives and aspects that challenge established expectations and conventional certitudes. A journey not to be missed!”
---—Samuel Weber, Northwestern University
