This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority
constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature
has, since its inception, depended on a rogueas gallery of
outsidersathe more outlandish the better, with human attributes
optionalaas the impetus to its events and the motive for its
developments. Philosophers have also vacillated between
safeguarding the purity and consistency of their systematic
projects and embracing contamination by alien and intransigent
elements.The unsettling encounter between interiority and
exteriority is a philosophical and literary sideshow not nearly as
frivolous as it might seem. Building upon Nietzscheas fatal
confrontation aThe Wanderer and His Shadowa and Jacques Derridaas
initiation of the current era in critical theory with the
formulation aThe outside is the inside, a the author pursues the
vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a wide range of
artifacts and authors. Among these are James Joyce, Walter
Benjamin, James Baldwin, and William Faulkner. A welcome is further
extended to the peculiar sublime introduced in the Zohar and in the
texts of Georg BA1/4chner, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, and Paul
Celan.
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