The changing shape of the search for meaning in American Literature, what does it mean to be ‘human’ today?
Comparing Don Delillo’s vision of contemporary culture and humanity to Beat literature, to explore how technology and mass culture have changed the nature of Being.
Using Heidegger to compare the authentic Beat human to the inauthentic contemporary human.
Does the resurgence of interest in the Beat Generation imply the effort to reclaim authentic life?