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Settlement is imagined before it is practiced: Herman Rapaport, ‘Fantasies of Settlement: Heidegger, Tocqueville, Fichte, Faulkner’, Modern Fiction Studies, 63, 1, 2017, pp. 9-28

28Mar17

Abstract: This essay considers fantasies of human settlement in terms of political philosophy and literature and considers writings by Martin Heidegger, J. G. Fichte, Alexis de Tocqueville, and William Faulkner. Issues of race and place are examined.

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