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Book SynopsisUsing examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These e
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CONTENTS, pg. xv*INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS, pg. 1*1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM, pg. 23*2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE, pg. 94*3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE, pg. 139*4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT, pg. 158*5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER, pg. 179*6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE, pg. 202*7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II, pg. 224*8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, pg. 267*9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE, pg. 291*10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF, pg. 317*11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME, pg. 341*12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE, pg. 393*13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING, pg. 424*14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF, pg. 453*INDEX, pg. 495
