A01=Agnieszka Kaczmarek
Agnieszka
Author_Agnieszka Kaczmarek
Category=DSBH
Category=GTM
Category=QD
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9783631625057
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The volume is an attempt to read William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury while bearing in mind three phenomenological philosophies of death as proposed by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas. The literary analysis mainly reveals how Benjy senses Scheler’s intuitive certainty of death, and presents Jason as the Schelerian dweller of the West who uproots the thought of finitude out of his awareness. Despite the committed suicide, Quentin Compson represents the embodiment of Heidegger’s Dasein, realizing both the authentic and inauthentic Being-towards-death. Lastly, Caddy’s fecundity and Dilsey’s responsibility for the Other exemplify what Levinas regards as victory over death, and demonstrate the infinity the French philosopher describes.
Agnieszka Kaczmarek, PhD, born 1977, is lecturer of American Civilization at the School of Higher Vocational Education in Nysa (Poland). Her main field of interest is twentieth-century American Literature, with a focus on American travel writing.
