Editors' Preface

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A Case for Irony: An Interview with Jonathan Lear

Interview: Jonathan Lear, The University of Chicago

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1. Introduction to the Roundtable: Holmes Rolston III’s A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

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2. Comments on A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

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3. Interpretive Skills for Environmental Ethics

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4. Unnaturally Cruel: Rolston on Animals, Ethics, and the Factory Farm

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1. Introduction to the Symposium: The Search for the Spiritual in Saul Bellow

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2. Bellow’s Spiritual Quest

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3. The Search to Be Human in Dangling Man

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4. Society, the Self, and Spirituality in Herzog

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5. Bellow, Kierkegaard, and American Estheticism

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6. Immortality in Ravelstein

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Some Principles at Work in Hesiod’s Theogony

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Bryant, Levi R. The Democracy of Objects. Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2011. 326 pp, pb $23.99. ISBN: 978–1–60785–204–9.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 163 pp, E-book, $11.99, eISBN: 978–0–307–95733–7.

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