Lutz Aimlessness

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55306-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: No Limits

Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about, daydreaming, and other ways to be open to possibility, chaos, and multiplicity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lutz, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Aimlessness: An Introduction
Aimlessness and Literature I: The Essay
Aimlessness and Literature II: Poetry
Aimlessness and Collage I: Out of Control
Aimlessness and the Nomad I: Deleuze and Guattari
Aimlessness and Method I: Definitions and Disclaimers
Aimlessness and the Nomad II: Lyotard and Genghis Khan
Aimlessness and Collage II: Tokarczuk, Nietzsche, Morris
Aimlessness and Collage III: The Encyclopedia
Aimlessness and Travel I: The Horizon
Aimlessness and Idleness I: Nietzsche, Adorno, and Idle Work
Aimlessness and Life I: Drugs and Self-Doubt
Aimlessness and Literature III: The Novel
Aimlessness and Travel II: Bad Road
Aimlessness and Death
Aimlessness and Life II: Intimacy
Aimlessness and Method II: Gertrude Stein, Jan Zwicky, Lao Tzu
Aimlessness and Life III: Stages
Aimlessness and Travel III: Intention
Aimlessness and Idleness II: Workaholicism
Aimlessness and Attention I: The Stream of Consciousness
Aimlessness and the Nomad III: Vehicle and Tenor
Aimlessness and Attention II: Excellence
Aimlessness and Idleness III: Restlessness
Aimlessness and Method III: The End
Aimlessness and Attention III: And Then
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Lutz is the founding editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at University of California at Riverside. His many books include Born Slippy: A Novel (2020) and Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums (2008), which won the American Book Award.