Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Introduction Broken Promises: Rousseau, de Man and Watergate 1
7. 1. Lovence in Rousseau’s Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse 13
8. 2. Reading Spectacles in Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert 25
9. 3. The Utter Misery of the Human Mind: Apotropaic and Theotropic in de Man’s Rousseau 41
10. 4. Rhetoric and Rausch: de Man on Nietzsche on Value and Style 57
11. 5. Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke 72
12. 6. Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man 81
13. 7. Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing 91
14. 8. Mistake in Paul de Man: Violent Reading and Theotropic Violence 103
15. 9. Lightstruck: ‘Hegel on the Sublime’ 118
16. 10. De Man vs. ‘Deconstruction’: or, Who, Today, Speaks for the Anthropocene? 131
17. 11. Paul de Man at Work: What Good is an Archive? 149
18. 12. DNA: de Man’s Nucleic Archive 157
19. 13. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Paul de Man and the Privatization of Thought 167
20. Appendix: Nietzsche I: Rhetoric + Metaphysics 179
21. Index 193