James S. Hans is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Value(s) of Literature, The Fate of Desire, The Origins of the Gods, Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth, and The Mysteries of Attention, all published by SUNY Press; as well as The Play of the World, Imitation and the Image of Man, The Question of Value: Thinking through Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud.