- Title
- Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God
- Author/Creator
- Marcos Antonio Norris
- Annotation
- Weighs in on the ongoing debate regarding Hemingway's religion by examining his life and works through the lens of contemporary Italian philosopher Georgio Agamben in conversation with twentieth-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Norris reconciles opposing views that Hemingway was either a Catholic or secular existentialist by positioning him as a secularized theist for whom religion manifests as "sovereign decision making." Norris writes: "The highest expression of sovereign choice, for Hemingway as for Agamben, is killing, a gesture that separates human life from animal life, superior being from inferior being through the ultimate act of domination." Discusses Hemingway's short stories, novels, and nonfiction works, including "A Natural History of the Dead," "Now I Lay Me," "On the Quai at Smyrna," The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Garden of Eden, Death in the Afternoon among others. Incudes helpful endnotes, bibliography, and index.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015213298703691
Book
Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God
Edinburgh University Press
2023
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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