On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum: Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cor

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1:  Retrieving Kierkegaard for the Post-9/11 Occasion:  A Late Meditation on the Secular

Chapter 2:  Heidegger and Das Nichts:  An Autobiographical Meditation on the Question of the Nothing

Chapter 3:  The Enigma of T. S. Eliot:  An Autobiographical Essay on the  Contradictions between His Poetry and Prose

Chapter 4:  On the Place ofExcrement:  My Relation to the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Chapter 5:  Hannah Arendt, Non-Jewish Jew:  Our Contemporary

Chapter 6:  Edward W. Said and William V. Spanos:  A Contrapuntal     Affiliation

Chapter 7:  Robert Kroetsch, Play, and the Specter:  A Meditation on a   Friendship

Chapter 8:  A "Mad Generosity:  Retrieving John Gardner

Chapter 9:  Robert Creeley,  Quintessential American Poet:  A Dialogue with a Departed Friend

Chapter 10:  Cornel West:  My Black-American Brother

Index