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The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx (MARK TWAIN & HIS CIRCLE)
Forrest G. Robinson
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Hardcover. Series: Mark Twain and His Circle Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HP; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem rescues the American genius from his role as funny-man by exploring how his reflections on religion, politics, philosophy, morality, and social issues overlap the philosophers' developed thoughts on these subjects. Remarkably, they had much in common. During their lifetimes, Twain, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx witnessed massive upheavals in ... Read more
The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem rescues the American genius from his role as funny-man by exploring how his reflections on religion, politics, philosophy, morality, and social issues overlap the philosophers' developed thoughts on these subjects. Remarkably, they had much in common. During their lifetimes, Twain, Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx witnessed massive upheavals in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Univ of Missouri
Condition
New
Series
Mark Twain and His Circle Series.
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826219527
SKU
V9780826219527
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About Forrest G. Robinson
Forrest G. Robinson, Professor of Humanities at the University of California-Santa Cruz, is the author or editor of ten books, including The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. He lives in Santa Cruz. Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., is the coeditor of Prosthetic Territories: Politics and Hypertechnologies. He lives in Marguette, Michigan. Catherine M. Carlstroem ... Read more
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