Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Language and Violence: The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory
Chapter One. Counting on the Battlefield: Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War
Chapter Two. Care and Creation: The Anglo-American Modernists
Chapter Three. Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe: Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant
Chapter Four. Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms: Literature and Theory between the Wars
Chapter Five. Language, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology
Chapter Six. Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law
Notes
Index