"A beautifully written, often moving account of the status of the dream in twentieth-century writing."—Pericles Lewis, Yale University

"A far-reaching, far-seeing work based on varied and serious reading."
—Paul Fry, Yale University

"Powerfully conceived and beautifully written . . . An important contribution to the theory of dreams and a new thinking of ethics."—Eyal Peretz, Indiana University

“The Other Night is a series of brilliant and lucid readings. But beyond that, Farbman brings his very broad knowledge of these demanding authors to bear such that he transforms commentary on individual key figures of twentieth-century European thought into a generalized commentary on that era. Farbman engages the questions of language, subjectivity, and the difficult link of these to the fundaments of an ethics. He foregrounds the issue of dream, which proves to be inextricable from a meditation on language and responsibility. How are we to begin to contemplate the urgency of responsibility in dreams of all places, and this in the writings of authors whose reflections never gain the status of certainty, he asks. This is an elegant piece of rigorous and original critical thinking.”—Carol Jacobs, Yale University