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1652404Impersonalityhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/impersonality/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/446135/42189b43-fa85-4284-8bf8-d25b3669b4f9.jpg?v=638334846780230000557774MXNUniversity of Chicago PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernismwriters for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no ones voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous.</p><p>To consent to being anonymous, Weil wrote, is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels? Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibilityfrom a truth that has no social foundation. <em>Impersonality</em> investigates the uncompromising nature of writing that suspends, eclipses, and even destroys the person as a social, political, or individual entity, of writing that engages with personal identity at the moment when its usual markers vanish or dissolve.</p>...1629733Impersonality557774https://www.gandhi.com.mx/impersonality/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/446135/42189b43-fa85-4284-8bf8-d25b3669b4f9.jpg?v=638334846780230000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20099780226091334_W3siaWQiOiI2ODQ0ZTdlNC1lNjhiLTQzNzItYTgwYi00NzY4OWE4MTRhZWIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjc3NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjIxNywic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo1NTcsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA3LTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9780226091334_<p>Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernismwriters for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no ones voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous.</p><p>To consent to being anonymous, Weil wrote, is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels? Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibilityfrom a truth that has no social foundation. <em>Impersonality</em> investigates the uncompromising nature of writing that suspends, eclipses, and even destroys the person as a social, political, or individual entity, of writing that engages with personal identity at the moment when its usual markers vanish or dissolve.</p>...9780226091334_University of Chicago Presslibro_electonico_f6554585-7a60-37cb-826b-8c6dcb575087_9780226091334;9780226091334_9780226091334Sharon CameronInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-4ad09f9b-257d-4de9-a27e-dbddded51038.epub2009-11-15T00:00:00+00:00University of Chicago Press