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Fantasies of Settlement: Heidegger, Tocqueville, Fichte, Faulkner
- MFS Modern Fiction Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2017
- pp. 9-28
- 10.1353/mfs.2017.0002
- Article
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This essay considers fantasies of human settlement in terms of political philosophy and literature and considers writings by Martin Heidegger, J. G. Fichte, Alexis de Tocqueville, and William Faulkner. Issues of race and place are examined.