SCARS OF THE SPIRIT: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity

Longtime Yale professor Hartman is the author of a definitive study of Wordsworth, numerous explanations of deconstruction and trenchant recent writing on the Holocaust. In 13 essays such as "A Short History of the Unreal" and "Aestheticide," Hartman carefully shows how reading can lead us to our authentic selves, and away from a "disenchantment that is final." (Sept. 2)