Chapter 1 Reading Hartman -- chapter 2 A matter of relation, a question of place: Hartman and contemporary criticism -- chapter 3 The Wandering Jew: Hartman's relation to Judaism and Romanticism -- chapter 4 Calling voices out of silence: Criticism as echo-chamber -- chapter 5 'Dying into the life of recollection': the burden of artistic vocation -- chapter 6 Estranging the familiar: Hartman and the essay, or the cat Geoffrey at pranks -- chapter 7 It's about time: negative hermeneutics and the fate of reading.
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`The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts ""that they might answer him.""' Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession', is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism. Professor Atkins explains clearly Hartman's key ideas and places his work in the contexts of Romanticism and Judaism on which he has written extensively. In Geoffrey Hartman he.