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Miller, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis , translated by Dennis Porter
(New York: Norton, 1992), 274-75.
14 6. Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in Two Acts (New York: Grove
Press, 1954); Endgame, A Play in One Act, Followed by Act Without Words, A
Mime for One Player (New York: Grove Press, 1958).
147. T. C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth (New York: Viking Penguin, 2000).
148. For my analyses of this subject in another context, see “After the Covenant:
Romanticism, Secularization, and Disastrous Transcendence,” European
Romantic Review 21 (2010): 345-61.
149. All biblical quotations in this chapter are taken from The Holy Bible: Revised
Standard Edition (New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Old Testament portions
copyright 1952).
150. “'The planet won't be destroyed by global warming because God promised
Noah,' says politician bidding to chair U.S. energy commitee,” [D a i l y]
Mail Online , November 10, 2010, htp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
article-1328366/John-Shimkus-Global-warming-wont-destroy-planet-God-
promised-Noah.html.
151. For an exemplary reading of Job along these lines, see Stephen Mitchell,
Introduction, The Book of Job , translated by Mitchell (New York:
HarperCollins, 1987), v ii-x x x ii.
152. As a result, even though Job eventually recovers his property and family,
we should not assume that this happy ending arises as a consequence of his
moment of humility. In fact, the divine repudiation of justice renders that
happy ending trivial by comparison.
153. Some readers might ponder whether awe is a version of the aesthetics of the
sublime. In his influential account, Immanuel Kant argues that in the sublime
we respond to the ininite capacity of the mind, not of nature. he topic of Job
instead depicts a response to what truly exceeds us. For Kant's discussion,
see Critique of the Power of Judgment , edited by Paul Guyer, translated by
Guyer and Eric Mathews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2000), 128-159.
154. For a reading of Job that brings out the environmentalist overtones of its
atack on anthropocentrism, see Bill McKibben, The Comforting Whirlwind:
God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).
155. Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural
Diversity (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999); see especially 252-262.