Geoffrey Hartman, The Fateful Question of Culture

Eddie Yeghiayan

• The Fateful Question of Culture. New York: Culumbia University Press, 1997.
  Also issued as a paperback.
  Winner of the 1998 René Wellek Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association.
  Contents:

  • Chapter One. Introduction:1-20.
    
  • Chapter Two. Culture and the Abstract Life:21-59.
    
  • Chapter Three.The Question of Our Speech:61-97.
    
  • Chapter Four. Language and Culture After the Holocaust:99-140.
    
  • Chapter Five. The Sympathy Paradox: Poetry, Feeling, and Modern Cultural Morality:141-164.
    
  • Chapter Six. A Culture of Inclusion:165-203,
    
  • Appendix 1. "Culture" and "Civilization":205-224.
    
  • Appendix 2. On Methodology:225-230.