This book reads Faulkner’s with philosophies of death: Benjy senses Max Scheler’s intuitive certainty of death, Jason is the Schelerian dweller of the West, Quentin the embodiment of Martin Heidegger’s «Dasein», and Caddy’s fecundity and Dilsey’s responsibility for the «Other» exemplify Emmanuel Levinas’s «victory over death».

Agnieszka Kaczmarek, PhD, born 1977, is lecturer of American Civilization at the School of Higher Vocational Education in Nysa (Poland). Her main field of interest is twentieth-century American Literature, with a focus on American travel writing.

Contents: The Phenomenon of Death: Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas – The Benjy and Jason Narratives and Scheler’s Phenomenon of Death – Quentin’s Existence as Being-Towards-Death – Faulkner’s Final Answer to Death: Dilsey’s Responsibility and Caddy’s Fecundity.