Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Inventing New Beginnings
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preamble 1
5. Part One (Recto). Thinking in Renaissance or A Grammar of Beginnings 21
6. One. Beginnings 23
7. Two. Beginning Anew 63
8. Three. Turning 106
9. Part Two (Verso). Writing in Resurrection or The Semantics of Restoration
10. One. The Imperishability of Being 165
11. Two. The Retrieval of Ambivalence 222
12. Three. The Unfinishedness of Return 274
13. Abbreviations 307
14. Notes 309
15. Index 415