CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. CONTENTS xv
5. INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS 1
6. PART ONE. GRACE
7. 1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM 23
8. 2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE 94
9. PART TWO. VIOLENCE
10. 3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE 139
11. 4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT 158
12. 5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER 179
13. 6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE 202
14. 7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II 224
15. 8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP 267
16. 9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE 291
17. PART THREE. SELF
18. 10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF 317
19. 11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME 341
20. 12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE 393
21. 13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING 424
22. 14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF 453
23. INDEX 495