Reason for Being in the World: Table & Chapters

A table of contents page for Reason for Being in the World, with links to all chapters published so far.

An intellectual and spiritual accounting of identity

What first surrounded me in childhood — after myself, that is, in my self-comforting consciousness and my familiar body, and after my family — was my Americanness, which was so readily apparent because so enveloping: my Americanness within the ever expanding and enriching American culture of the 1950s …