Full Description
Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.
Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the root of the Civil War and accounts in large measure for the failure of Reconstruction, that runs through the Civil Rights moment, and that showed itself again in the events of January 6, 2021. Grievance, in America, always concatenates with racism and evinces itself most violently in those moments when white supremacy, fallaciously, presents itself as being under attack. This book explores this elemental yet destructive thread of the American character.
Contents
Preface.
Aphorisms I. Grievance: On Names and Time.
I - XLVI.
Aphorisms II. Grief.
I - XVIII.
Aphorisms III. Achilles: Grievance, Grief, Love.
I - XVII.
Fragments I. Time, Names.
I - IV.
Aphorisms IV. Thinking, Grief. Thinking Grief.
I - X.
Aphorisms V. Grief, Grievance: In Music, In Literature.
I - XXIX.
Fragment II. The State.
I - II.
Aphorisms V. Tolerance, Intolerance.
I - XXXVIII.
Aphorisms VI. Time and the Shaman.
I - X.
An Aphoristic Interlude. The Shaman as a Village Person.
i - xli.
Aphorisms VI. Continued. Time and the Shaman.
XI - XXXIX.
Fragments III.
I - III.
Aphorisms VII. Empathy.
I - XLVI.
