Books by Henry Sussman

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

Offers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing Operating System' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique, and science.

Building upon Nietzsche's fatal confrontation "The Wanderer and His Shadow" and Jacques Derrida's initiation of the era in critical theory with the formulation "The outside is the inside," the author pursues the vicussitudes of the dimensional frontier in a range of artifacts and authors.

Today's critic must be something of a philosopher as well as a poet. Yet her workremains above all that of the close reader, and the emergence of the valuesembodied by the close reader to stand alongside those of the philosopher andthe poet may be one of the most significant intellectual developments to emergein the post-World War II years

This text offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor which began with the decline of feudalism in the church.