Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Author’s Preface viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. List of Abbreviations xiv
7. Part I: Aesthetic Ideology
8. Chapter 1 Allegories of Reference: An Introduction to Aesthetic Ideology 3
9. Chapter 2 “As the Poets Do It”: On the Material Sublime 38
10. Chapter 3 Returns of the Sublime: Positing and Performative in Kant, Fichte, and Schiller 65
11. Chapter 4 Lightstruck: “Hegel on the Sublime” 79
12. Part II: Hegel/Marx
13. Chapter 5 Hegel/Marx: Consciousness and Life 99
14. Chapter 6 Man and Self-Consciousness: Kojève, Romantic Ironist 127
15. Chapter 7 Next Steps: Lukács, Jameson, Post-Dialectics 137
16. Part III: Heidegger/Derrida
17. Chapter 8 Monstrous History: Heidegger Reading Hölderlin 159
18. Chapter 9 Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 173
19. Chapter 10 Machinal Effects: Derrida With and Without de Man 185
20. Appendix 1: A Question of an Other Order: Deflections of the Straight Man 203
21. Appendix 2: Response to Frances Ferguson 215
22. Index 220