Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Harold Bloom’s Works
Introduction: Life as an Argument: Harold Bloom’s Antithetical Vitalism
Part I: The Antithetical Quester
Chapter One: Life in Agon: From Romanticism to Deconstruction and Beyond
Chapter Two: Literary Lie and Philosophical Truth: Tarrying with the Deconstruction
Part II: Agon with the Deadly Angels
Chapter Three: Life and Death in Deconstruction: From Hegel to de Man
Chapter Four: The Davharocentric Subject, or Narcissism Reconsidered: Bloom Versus Derrida
Part III: Wrestling Harold
Chapter Five: Intricate Evasions, or the Poetic Will-to-Ignorance
Chapter Six: Fair Crossings: From Mere Life to More Life
Chapter Seven: Tainted Love: A Psycho-Kabbalistic Reading of the Poetic Scene of Instruction
Notes
Bibliography
Index