Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction: A School of Singularity?; Chapter One: Freedoms and the Institutional Americanism of Literary Study; Chapter Two: Heidegger's Dream of Singularization; Chapter Three: The Uniquely Obvious: Singularity in Gadamer's Late Essays; Chapter Four: Pitching Strangely: The Poetic in Blanchot; Chapter Five: Derrida, A Pragmatics of Singularity; Epilogue.

About the Author

Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham.

Reviews

Offering everyday examples for a complex thought (the singular is something lost in translation or when a joke is explained) this book succeeds in rescuing a fascinating idea from the depths of the impenetrable.