Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account xi
5. INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place
6. 1. Referent and Annihilation: ‘‘X’’ Marks the Spot 3
7. 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant 9
8. 3. ‘‘Sovereignty’’ over Language: Of Lice and Men 17
9. 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ‘‘X’’ 24
10. PART I. Goethe’s Timelessness
11. 1. Faust’s Building: Theory as Practice 29
12. 2. Faust’s and Heidegger’s Technology: Building as Poiesis 45
13. 3. In the Place of Language 54
14. 4. ‘‘Time Refound’’ 60
15. PART II. Built Time
16. 1. Building, Story, and Image 63
17. 2. Benjamin’s and Goethe’s Passagen: Ottilie under Glass 75
18. 3. Nature in Pieces 93
19. 4. ‘‘Superfluous Stones’’ 102
20. 5. ‘‘Stones for Thought’’ 114
21. 6. Kant’s and Goethe’s Schatzkammer: Buried Time 123
22. AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent 133
23. Appendix. Continuation of Notes 145
24. Bibliography 163