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No One´s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming
Daniel Heller-Roazen
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Description for No One´s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
From Homer's Outis- No One, or Non-One, No Man, or Non-Man -to soul, spirit, and the unnamable. Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He called himself Outis: No One, or Non-One, No Man, or Non-Man. The ploy was a success. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name. ... Read more
From Homer's Outis- No One, or Non-One, No Man, or Non-Man -to soul, spirit, and the unnamable. Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He called himself Outis: No One, or Non-One, No Man, or Non-Man. The ploy was a success. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781935408888
SKU
V9781935408888
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About Daniel Heller-Roazen
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, and The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World, ... Read more
Reviews for No One´s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming
No One's Ways is a continuation of the series of works of intellectual history Heller-Roazen has produced for the publisher Zone Books-his sixth to date.... Though each books takes up a different subject, there are clear commonalities between them, as well as a discernible set of long-term research interests involving speech and language, the limits of consciousness, and the writing ... Read more