Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Outside Modernity 1
5. Theological Modernities
6. The Sense of an Epoch: Periodization, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Secularization 39
7. The Sacrament of the Fetish, the Miracle of the Commodity: Hegel and Marx 70
8. Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern 94
9. Response: More Than We Bargained For 119
10. Scholastic Modernities
11. We Have Never Been Schreber: Paranoia, Medieval and Modern 127
12. Medieval Studies, Historicity, and Heidegger’s Early Phenomenology 159
13. Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art 194
14. Response: Medusa’s Gaze 233
15. Afterword: On the Medieval 243
16. Bibliography 247
17. Contributors 269
18. Index 271