Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Language and Violence: The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory -- 1. Counting on the Battlefield: Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War -- 2. Care and Creation: The Anglo-American Modernists -- 3. Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe: Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant -- 4. Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms: Literature and Theory between the Wars -- 5. Language, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology -- 6. Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law -- Notes -- Index.