Download or read book The Fateful Question of Culture written by Geoffrey H. Hartman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most incisive critics asks where the assault against the canons of Western culture has led us. "Other scholars have written about 'literature after Auschwitz, ' but none has brought to this dire subject Hartman's combination of knowledge, thoughtfulness, scope, and scruple. . . ".--Denis Donoghue, author of CONNOISSEURS OF CHAOS.