Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Auerbach’s Scar 19
6. 2. The Siege of Baghdad 41
7. 3. Of Learned Ignorance 64
8. 4. Memories of the Future 84
9. 5. A Carceral Archive and the Culture of Conspiracy: 108
10. 6. The Arts of Mitigation, the Garden in the Barbarian 134
11. 7. The Labors of Cassandra 158
12. 8. The People’s Republic and the Republic of Letters 177
13. 9. Memo from the Next Millennium 194
14. Epilogue 204
15. Notes 221
16. Bibliography 249
17. Index 263
18. Cultural Memory in the Present 275