Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Awakening
1: So soft this morning, ours
2: His reignbolt's shot
3: Respectable
4: Nayman of Noland
5: Crossmess parzel
6: Life's robulous rebus
7: Three score and ten toptypsical readings
8: The hubbub caused in Edenborough
9: The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude
10: Everybody heard their plaint
11: Tell me more
12: Loud, heap miseries upon us
13: The tasks above are as the flasks below
14: From Liff away
15: The four of us and sure, thank God, there are no more of us
16: A picture primitive
17: Lightbreakfastbringer
18: Arise, sir ghostus!
19: Male and female, unmask we hem
20: The keys to. Given!
21: Aisy now, you decent man

About the Author

John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Reviews

"Philip Kitcher is just the person we need to rein in a virtuoso performance that threatens at every turn to spin out of control. There's no novel more in need of, and more worthy of, a philosophical perspective, and Kitcher, himself a virtuoso devotee of literature, will henceforth have provided Joyce's summa its firm foundation." --Paul Fry, Yale University
"Kitcher has an important reading of Finnegans Wake to present, and his is an ideal way into the book for those who have heretofore been too timid to attempt it. But Joyce's Kaleidoscope also has much to recommend it for 'seasoned' Joyceans, who may be surprised at how much they have to learn. I've read a lot of scholarship on Finnegans Wake over the years; but Kitcher's book is the first in a very long time that has made me eager to
pick up Joyce's last, monstrous novel, and try again."--Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois University
"This book performs the remarkable feat of making the pleasures of Finnegans Wake enticing to the general reader. Philip Kitcher shows that Joyce's last masterpiece, rather than an esoteric word game, is a heartwarming portrait of the aging artist in his family, as sad and funny as the portrait of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. An irresistible invitation to Finnegans Wake, Joyce's Kaleidoscope also appeals to experienced readers
by illuminating the humanity of Joyce's vision."--Maud Ellmann, University of Notre Dame
"Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given, just 'mind your hats goan in!'"- -Jean-Michel Rabaté, Princeton University
"Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given, just 'mind your hats goan in!'" -Jean-Michel Rabaté, Princeton University
"This book performs the remarkable feat of making the pleasures of Finnegans Wake enticing to the general reader. Philip Kitcher shows that Joyce's last masterpiece, rather than an esoteric word game, is a heartwarming portrait of the aging artist in his family, as sad and funny as the portrait of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. An irresistible invitation to Finnegans Wake, Joyce's Kaleidoscope also appeals to experienced readers
by illuminating the humanity of Joyce's vision."--Maud Ellmann, University of Notre Dame
"Kitcher has an important reading of Finnegans Wake to present, and his is an ideal way into the book for those who have heretofore been too timid to attempt it. But Joyce's Kaleidoscope also has much to recommend it for 'seasoned' Joyceans, who may be surprised at how much they have to learn. I've read a lot of scholarship on Finnegans Wake over the years; but Kitcher's book is the first in a very long time that has made me eager to
pick up Joyce's last, monstrous novel, and try again."--Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois University
"Philip Kitcher is just the person we need to rein in a virtuoso performance that threatens at every turn to spin out of control. There's no novel more in need of, and more worthy of, a philosophical perspective, and Kitcher, himself a virtuoso devotee of literature, will henceforth have provided Joyce's summa its firm foundation." --Paul Fry, Yale University