Henry Miller, the inhuman artist : a philosophical inquiry / Indrek Manniste.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Prelude to a Future Philosophy: Modernist Melancholy, Dadaist Dances, and Surrealist Songs; A modernist who got left out in the cold; Modernists in Europe, Miller in America; Dadaist dances; Surrealist songs; Where do we go from here?; Notes; Chapter 2 Apocalypse Now: The End of History and the Twofold Present; Apocalypse and modern consciousness; Toward the ahistorical; Linear history rejected; Away from the "middle"; Two presents uncovered; Against the "transitional" moderns.

Dealing with the crisisEn route to Philosophia Milleriana via the traditional and full present; Notes; Chapter 3 The Anxiety of Enframing: Miller, Modern Technology, and Work; The rise of modern technology; Technological America and Miller's youth; Spengler, the machine and the Faustian man; Against false progress; Miller, technology, and the Frankfurt School; Overthrowing metaphysics with Heidegger: Traditional present and the metaphysical ground; Traditional present ontic, full present ontological?; Modern technology as Enframing.

Modern work as part of the traditional present and its metaphysicsBecoming a machine; Work vs. play; Free at last; Toward the inhuman and the full present; Notes; Chapter 4 Behold, I Teach You the Inhuman!: Inhuman Artist, Übermensch, and China; The appearance of the inhuman; The inhuman revolution; Two sides of the inhuman artist: Beelzebub and St. Anthony; Inhuman  Übermensch?; Critics on Miller and Übermensch; Miller: A king of allusion or a poor man's Nietzsche?; From art to China: Inhuman revolution vol. 2; A call for inhuman art; China disclosed; Inhuman revolution now finished?

China and NietzscheChina vs. esthetics; Art estheticized; Art and art; Notes; Chapter 5 From Theoria To Praxis: The Poetry of Life; Greece: Transition to St. Anthony and the Artist; From peace to China, from art to life; America: Search for the Inhuman in the land of hopes and dreams; Inhuman in need of human help; The woods of Arcady are alive: Big Sur; C'est tout!: Pacific Palisades; The words of wisdom: To whom and what for?; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic of Miller's ideas. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his literary attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. It is argued that, by repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, mod.

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