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Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.

Originally published in 1954.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Contents
  2. p. xv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 3-20
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  1. Part 1: Grace
  1. 1. Violence and Decorum
  2. pp. 23-93
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  1. 2. The Consequences of Secular Grace
  2. pp. 94-136
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  1. Part 2: Violence
  1. 3. The Assailant and the Victim: Some Definitions of Modern Violence
  2. pp. 139-157
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  1. 4. The Moment of Violence: Ernst Juenger and the Literary Problem of Fact
  2. pp. 158-178
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  1. 5. The Scene of Violence: Dostoevsky and Dreiser
  2. pp. 179-201
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  1. 6. The Imagery of Catastrophe
  2. pp. 202-223
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  1. 7. "Terror's Unique Enigma"
  2. pp. 224-266
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  1. 8. The Hero in Absentia
  2. pp. 267-290
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  1. 9. Kafka's The Trial
  2. pp. 291-314
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  1. Part 3: Self
  1. 10. The Transcendent Self
  2. pp. 317-340
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  1. 11. "Ecstatic Temporality"
  2. pp. 341-392
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  1. 12. "The Book of Himself"
  2. pp. 393-423
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  1. 13. Existentialist Living and Dying
  2. pp. 424-452
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  1. 14. Conclusion
  2. pp. 453-494
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  1. Index
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