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!

About the Author

Currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Philip Kitcher is a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is also the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include The Advancement of Science (OUP); The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human
Possibilities; Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP); In Mendel's Mirror; and Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring.

Reviews

"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, University of Pennsylvania
"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."-Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College
"This book performs the remarkable feat of making the pleasures of Finnegans Wake enticing to the general reader. . . . 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