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Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics  \nJosiah Ober, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule  \nAnne Carson, Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)  \nEconomy of the Unlost  \n(READING SIMON IDES OF KEOS WITH PAUL CE LAN)  \nAnne Carson  \np r i n c e t o n u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s  \np r i n c e t o n , n e w j e r s e y  \nCopyright q 1999 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540  \nIn the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCarson, Anne, 1950–  \nEconomy of the unlost : reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan / Anne Carson.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Martin classical lectures. New series) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \neISBN 1-4008-0111-7  \n1. Simonides, ca. 556–467 B.C.—Criticism and interpretation.  \n2. Celan, Paul—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Literature, Comparative—Greek and German. 4. Literature, Comparative—German and Greek. 5. Economics in literature. 6. Aesthetics. I. Title.  \nII. Series: Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered) . New series.  \nPA4411.C37 1999 884 9.01—dc21 98-49984  \nThis book has been composed in Baskerville [http:/ /pup.princeton.edu](http:/ /pup.princeton.edu)  \nNote on Method vii  \nPrologue  \nFalse Sail 3  \nChapter I  \nAlienation 10  \nChapter II  \nVisibles Invisibles 45  \nChapter III  \nEpitaphs 73  \nChapter IV  \nNegation 100  \nEpilogue  \nAll Candled Things 120  \nBibliography 135  \nIndex 145  \nNur hat ein jeder sein Maas.  \n(Ho¨lderlin)  \nThere is too much self in my writing. Do you know the term Luka´cs uses to describe aesthetic structure? Eine fensterlose Monade.1 I do not want to be a windowless monad—my training and trainers opposed subjectivity strongly, I have struggled since the beginning to drive my thought out into the landscape of science and fact where other people converse logically and exchange judgments—but I go blind out there. So writing involves some dashing back and forth between that darkening landscape where facticity is strewn and a windowless room cleared of everything Ido not know. It is the clearing that takes time. It is the clearing that is a mystery.  \nOnce cleared the room writes itself. I copy down the names of everything left in it and note their activity.  \nHow does the clearing occur? Luka´cs says it begins with my intent to excise everything that is not accesible to the immediate experience (Erlebbarkeit) of the self as self. Were this possible, it would seal the room on its own boundaries like a cosmos. Luka´csis prescribing a room for aesthetic work; it would be a gesture of false consciousness to say academic writing can take place there. And yet, you know as well as I, thought finds itself in this room in its best moments—  \nlocked inside its own pressures, fishing up facts of the landscape from notes or memory as well as it may—vibrating (as Mallarme´ would say) with their disappearance. People have different viewson how to represent the vibration.“Names” and “activity” are eu  \nphemisms for the work. You may prefer different euphemisms; I 1 Luka´cs (1917), 19.  \nNOTE ON METHOD  \nguess the important thing is to copy down whatever vibration you see while your attention is strong.  \nAttention is a task we share, you and I. To keep attention strong means to keep it from settling. Partly for this reason I have chosen to talk about two men at once. They keep each other from settling.","cbCaikTxLUDwTcJa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikTxLUDwTcJa","pdf",1989306,155,"English","# Note on Method\n# Prologue\n# False Sail\n# Chapter I - Alienation\n# Chapter II - Visibles Invisibles\n# Chapter III - Epitaphs\n# Chapter IV - Negation\n# Epilogue - All Candled Things\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the book’s method?\",\"answer\":\"The book emphasizes how a “clearing” enables aesthetic work, and it treats attention as a shared task that must stay strong to avoid settling.\"},{\"question\":\"Which main authors are paired for key readings?\",\"answer\":\"Anne Carson’s lectures include a reading of Simonides of Keos together with Paul Celan.\"},{\"question\":\"What topics are covered across the chapters?\",\"answer\":\"The chapters address alienation, visibilities and invisibilities, epitaphs, and negation, followed by an epilogue centered on “all candled things.”\"}]","Economy of the Unlost | PDF",1791237014,239]