The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy
The View from Nowhere is a cross-disciplinary work that studies the impact of the mystical discourse, specifically Cabala, on literature, from the Renaissance to the present. The other major concern of The View from Nowhere is to evaluate the "reading" of postmodern simulation-theory, principally that of Jean Baudrillard of Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean existentialism.
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The View from Nowhere is a cross-disciplinary work that studies the impact of the mystical discourse, specifically Cabala, on literature, from the Renaissance to the present. The other major concern of "The View from Nowhere" is to evaluate the "reading" of postmodern simulation-theory, principally that of Jean Baudrillard of Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean existentialism.Author Biography: Philip Beitchman is author of "Alchemy of the Word, Cabala of the Renaissance" (SUNY press, 1998) and "I am a Process with No Subject, (University of Florida Press, 1988). He is Adjunct Associate Professor at Saint Francis College, NY and Adjunct Assistant Professor at St. Johns University and Medgar Evers College, NY.BooknewsIn this text, Beitchman (affiliation not cited) aims to establish and explain the impact of the Jewish occult tradition of cabala on literature and vice versa. His analysis of literature includes the writings of John Milton and Nathaniel Hawthorne's . The final chapters discuss contemporary theorist Jean Baudrillard's "misreadings" (according to Beitchman) of Kierkegaard, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Foreword/ShorewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPreamble: Charles Baudelaire's Poeme du haschisch as Prototype for a Cinematic Perception of Reality1Ch. 1Milton and Cabala Reconsidered9Ch. 2Cabala and Literature45Interlude: Psychotic Episode as Passage, Inferno and Paradise: Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia as Other World79Ch. 3The 'Fatal Strategies' of Soren Kierkegaard89Ch. 4Transcending Hegel107Ch. 5What it means to be really Nietzschean: Baudrillard's Philosophy of Simulation and an Ethics of Misreading119Epilogue: Enigma, Exigence, Expiation - Hegel, Blanchot, Des Forets131Appendices135Notes153Bibliography I (Chapters One and Two)185Bibliography II (Chapters Three, Four and Five)195Index199
\ Dr. Mick SternWith great learning and rich suggestiveness, this book invokes a great, wide-ranging ocean of a text, and all that a reader can do is view it from a shore that may have already been washed away.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsIn this text, Beitchman (affiliation not cited) aims to establish and explain the impact of the Jewish occult tradition of cabala on literature and vice versa. His analysis of literature includes the writings of John Milton and Nathaniel Hawthorne's . The final chapters discuss contemporary theorist Jean Baudrillard's "misreadings" (according to Beitchman) of Kierkegaard, Hegel, and Nietzsche. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
