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On: Waiting
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On
Waiting
This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and
informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful. The book is
astonishingly erudite, but wears this learning so lightly and so charmingly
that it is both easy and gripping to read.
Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London
Within these covers, Harold Schweizer has assembled a world of philo-
sophical and literary musings on the time-tormented suspension of wait-
ing. As we read his learned, lucid essay, an area of everyday experience
swims into focus as if for the fi rst time, the sentences on every page fi lled
with an evocative, almost hypnotic charm. On Waiting is a deep plunge into
the pleasure of thought.
Wendy Steiner, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
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HAROLD SCHWEIZER
On
Waiting
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First published 2008
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.
“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s
collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”
© 2008 Harold Schweizer
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Schweizer, Harold, 1950–
On waiting / Harold Schweizer.
p. cm.—(Thinking in action)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Waiting (Philosophy) I. Title.
B105.W24S39 2008
128'.4—dc22
2007047201
ISBN 0-203-92715-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–77506–X (hbk)
ISBN10: 0–415–77507–8 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0–203–92715–X (ebk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–77506–9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–77507–6 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–92715–1 (ebk)

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