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David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in subject and tone-sometimes serious, sometimes playful-but are united by Hart's distinctive voice: witty, attentive, and unafraid of digression.
Rather than advancing a single argument or theme, Hart lets each essay follow its own path. Short notes sit alongside longer meditations; close readings give way to cultural commentary or unexpected enthusiasms. Hart focuses on the joys of style, observation, and thought in motion. A Gathering of Leaves is a book for readers who enjoy the art of the word-writing that informs and entertains, wanders and returns, and reminds us why reading itself remains a pleasure.
David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in subject and tone-sometimes serious, sometimes playful-but are united by Hart's distinctive voice: witty, attentive, and unafraid of digression.
Rather than advancing a single argument or theme, Hart lets each essay follow its own path. Short notes sit alongside longer meditations; close readings give way to cultural commentary or unexpected enthusiasms. Hart focuses on the joys of style, observation, and thought in motion. A Gathering of Leaves is a book for readers who enjoy the art of the word-writing that informs and entertains, wanders and returns, and reminds us why reading itself remains a pleasure.
David Bentley Hart is a writer, religious studies scholar, philosopher, cultural commentator, and writer of fiction. He is the author and translator of twenty-three books, including the award-winning You Are Gods.
A Brief Introduction
1. Non Compos: Extracts from the Court Record
2. America's Team (or: The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination)
3. On Writing English Prose: Ideals, Exemplars, Rules
4. Birthday Greetings for Marcel
5. Goethe's "Orientalism"
6. The Georgia Peach
7. Nabokovian Ruminations: Four Notes
8. The Peach Blossom Spring: A Translation (and apologia)
9. The Saint James Bible
10. Encomium for a Tortoise
11. By Sea-Girls Wreathed
12. Nothing at the Bottom: Four Notes on AI
13. Wings of Light: On Translating Proust
14. La règle du jeu: Five Notes on the Great American Pastime
15. Organism and Paradigm: Six Notes on Mind and Matter
16. Frank: The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
17. Revenants: Five Notes on Photography and the Deep Past
18. O Divine Monkey!
19. Echoes From the Past: Four Notes Mostly on the Beatles
20. On Yūrei, Jibakurei, and Phone Booths: Four Notes on Ghostly Japan
21. A Tale Told by an Idiot
22. The Ethos of the Ants
23. Mr Toad and the Judge: On the Relative Merits of Kenneth Grahame and Cormac McCarthy
24. Thoughts on The Hindus: Wendy Doniger and the Rise of Indian Nationalism
25. "Dream-Journey to Mount Tian-Mu: A Sigh of Farewell"
26. Noli Episcopari: Four Notes on Political Power
27. Dispatches from the Antipodes
28. The Net of Indra
29. The Cunning of History: Seven Notes on Chance and Fate
30. Scattered Reflections: On Themes Cinematic and Televisual
31. Dispatches from the Flowering Fenlands
32. The State of Exception
33. Slouching Towards DC
34. L'Ébauche d'un homme civilisé: On Paul Valéry
35. Neither Wilt Thou Suffer Thine Holy One to See Corruption
36. On The Feast of Stephen: Six Notes on Boxing Day
37. Gods of the Wayside
38. Leave at Once, or I Shall Set the Dogs on You: Mon Doppelgänger, Moi-Même
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Religion & Theologie |
| Religion: | Christentum |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780268211257 |
| ISBN-10: | 0268211256 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hart, David Bentley |
| Hersteller: | University of Notre Dame Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | David Bentley Hart |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.08.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,494 kg |