Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. I The Ancients
5. 1. The Anachrony of the Time-Fetish 1
6. 2. From Ovid to Titian: Eternal Return and the Cult of Bacchus and Ariadne 34
7. II Shakespeare
8. 3. "Shakespearances"; or, The War with Time 51
9. 4. Anamorphic Perspectives, Human (Im)postures, and the Rhetoric of the Aevum 69
10. III The Moderns
11. 5. Anamorphic Ghosts of Time: Schopenhauer, Kant, and Hegel 87
12. 6. Drive-Time: Eternal Return and the Life of the Instincts in Schelling, Freud, and the Marquis de Sade 101
13. 7. Playing with Cinders: From Nietzsche to Derrida 115
14. 8. Forgetting the Umbrella; or, Heidegger and Derrida on How to Say the Same Thing Differently 139
15. Bibliography 161
16. Index 175