Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 The One Who Inherits, Interprets 1
4. 2 Thetic Inheritance 2
5. 3 Ideal Reader 3
6. 4 No Conservatism 5
7. 5 Triple Temporalities 6
8. 6 Generations 7
9. 7 The Difficulty of Using Freely What Is One’s Own 8
10. 8 Elusive Inheritance 10
11. 9 Inheriting a Feeling 11
12. 10 Who Is the Human Being? 13
13. 11 Homo Hereditans 14
14. 12 Ruptured Temporalities 16
15. 13 Language 17
16. 14 Other Languages, Languages of the Other 18
17. 15 We Are What We Inherit 19
18. 16 Saying 20
19. 17 Always Already 21
20. 18 Ghostly Traces 22
21. 19 Undecidability 23
22. 20 Question Marks 24
23. 21 Endings, Beginnings 25
24. 22 Ends of Time 26
25. 23 Life and Death 28
26. 24 Leave-Taking 29
27. 25 Orphaned Remains 30
28. 26 Masterless Legacy 33
29. 27 Unwanted Inheritance 34
30. 28 The Original Unwanted Inheritance 37
31. 29 Unwanted Inheritance, Redux 39
32. 30 Refusals 41
33. 31 Hegelian Labors of Inheritance 42
34. 32 Unreadabilities of Inheritance 44
35. 33 Wrinkles 46
36. 34 Singularities of Misinheriting 47
37. 35 Suspended Differentiations 49
38. 36 The Past Is Not Past 50
39. 37 Reinvention I 51
40. 38 Reinvention II 52
41. 39 Paleonomies 53
42. 40 Imposition 55
43. 41 Being Born Posthumously 56
44. 42 Grave Cares 57
45. 43 Un héritier 58
46. 44 Inheriting Myths 61
47. 45 Backward and Forward 66
48. 46 Relating to an Inheritance Without Imitating 68
49. 47 Deniers 70
50. 48 Something Is Taking Its Course 71
51. 49 Coming After 72
52. 50 Inheriting Learning 73
53. 51 Institutions 75
54. 52 Nonexplicative Bequeathing 77
55. 53 Explanations Come to an End Somewhere 80
56. 54 Time after Time 81
57. 55 Inheriting Binaries 82
58. 56 Refusals Redux 83
59. 57 Recognizing the Self 85
60. 58 Mitwelt 86
61. 59 Refusals of Fashion 88
62. 60 Refusals, One More Time 89
63. 61 Keeping Watch 90
64. 62 Palliatives 91
65. 63 Little Greeks 92
66. 64 Inheriting Inheritance 94
67. 65 Anxieties of Inheritance 95
68. 66 Living On 96
69. 67 There May Be No Heir 97
70. 68 Chiseling 98
71. 69 Arresting Motion 99
72. 70 Elective Affinities 100
73. 71 Letting Sentences Run Risks 102
74. 72 The Strength That No Certainty Can Match 104
75. 73 Fatherless Inheritance 106
76. 74 Speaking With the Dead 108
77. 75 Two Sides of the Coin 111
78. 76 The Past Conditional 112
79. 77 Humic Inheritance 114
80. 78 Selections 116
81. 79 Who Inherits? 119
82. 80 Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Giants 120
83. 81 Translation I 122
84. 82 Translation II 123
85. 83 Haunting Inheritance 124
86. 84 To Read What Was Never Written 128
87. 85 Inheriting a Future 129
88. 86 Archival Traces 131
89. 87 Invisibilities 133
90. 88 Refunctionalizing I 134
91. 89 Refunctionalizing II 135
92. 90 Forgetting One’s Language, Making History 136
93. 91 Inheriting a Contested Provenance 139
94. 92 Reading Inheriting 140
95. 93 Understanding Tropes 141
96. 94 Je suis, I am — Do You Follow? 142
97. 95 Parusia 144
98. 96 Possibilities of Prosopopoeia 145
99. 97 What’s the Difference, Kafka? 146
100. 98 Inheritance Would Be a Good Idea 148
101. 99 Quotation 149
102. 100 Today 150
103. 101 Teacups 151
104. 102 Debts 153
105. 103 No Debts? 154
106. 104 Parental Riddles 155
107. 105 Mothers of the Heir 157
108. 106 Children of the Heir 158
109. 107 Fathers (Worrisome Bequeathing) 160
110. 108 Inherited Jouissance 162
111. 109 Self-Inheritance of Time I 164
112. 110 Self-Inheritance of Time II 165
113. 111 Applied Self-Inheritance 166
114. 112 Self-Inheritance Tripped Up 169
115. 113 Perverse Inheritance 170
116. 114 Unreasonable Reason 172
117. 115 Faulty Origins 173
118. 116 Heirs of the Ages 174
119. 117 Inheriting the Sound of Silence I 175
120. 118 Inheriting the Sound of Silence II 176
121. 119 Fibers 180
122. 120 Inheriting a Question Mark 181
123. 121 Not for Cowards 184
124. 122 Weight of the World 185
125. 123 Making Treasures Speak 186
126. 124 Loss 187
127. 125 Generalized Capitalism 189
128. 126 Nostalgia for the Future 191
129. 127 Rich Inner Life 193
130. 128 Doxa 194
131. 129 Side-Taking 195
132. 130 Detours and Forest Paths 197
133. 131 Stone 198
134. 132 Not Done 199
135. 133 Proof 200
136. 134 Creating Concepts 201
137. 135 Those Days 203
138. 136 Untimeliness 205
139. 137 Heir to Come 206
140. 138 Different Heir-Selves 207
141. 139 Possible Failures 208
142. 140 Partial Inheritance 209
143. 141 No Repetition 210
144. 142 How It Goes 211
145. 143 Not for Sale 212
146. 144 Wall Street Inherits Das Kapital 213
147. 145 The Sibling Rivalry of Inherited Space 214
148. 146 Inheriting the Wrong Words 216
149. 147 Creative Solitudes 217
150. 148 End Times 219
151. 149 Inheriting Extinction 220
152. Reference Matter 221