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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Errant Reflections
- 1. Completion Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): The Moment
- Memento Mori
- Secrets
- Existential Pedagogy
- Mission Accomplished
- 2. Immanence Friedrich Nietz sche (1844-1900): Ecce Homo, Will to Power
- Living Death
- Swallowing the Sea
- Unhappy Consciousness
- Bacchanalian Revel
- 3. Waiting Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003): "The Instant of My Death," Awaiting Oblivion
- Secrets
- Life After Death
- Posthumous Writing
- Living Death
- 4. Ghosts Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Moses and Monotheism, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- To Stay or to Leave?
- Death as Love as Death
- Surviving God
- 5. Trembling Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): The Beast and the Sovereign, II
- "Comment ne pas trembler?"
- Gifts
- Parting Words
- Corpse and Corpus
- Fear and Trembling
- 6. Delirium Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): Eureka, "Annabel Lee"
- Orphan
- Homesickness
- Ecstasy
- 7. Wavering Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Between the Acts
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Moments of Being
- Interlude: Marking Time
- Going with the Flo w
- Reflections on/of Ending
- 8. Intensity Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): The Dangerous Summer
- Deadly Legacy
- Real Fake
- Vio lence and the Sacr ed
- Dancing with Death
- Marked for Death
- 9. Speed David Foster Wallace (1962-2008): The Pale King, "Good Old Neon"
- Duplicity
- Total Noise
- Bored to Death
- End of the Line
- 10. Silence Herman Melville (1819-1891): The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd
- Place Matters
- The Failure of Success
- Masks
- "Naught Beyond"
- 11. Earth Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Wild Fruits, "Walking"
- Retirement
- Concord
- Flows
- Apples
- Leaves
- 12. Works Last Lessons Learned
- P.S
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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