Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Translations and Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Constructivism, Mathematics, and the Space of History 33
7. 2. The Eschatological Limit: Spatial Form in Karl Barth’s Dialectical Theology 81
8. 3. The Arc of History: Franz Rosenzweig’s Figures of Time and Eternity 129
9. 4. Temporal Exterritoriality: Siegfried Kracauer and the Shape of History 182
10. 5. Images without End: Robert Musil’s Narrative Ruptures 234
11. Epilogue: The Ends of Modernism 289
12. Bibliography 301
13. Index 319