Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Reading Experience I: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man 1
5. Introduction 5
6. Chapter 1 / Experience from Aristotle to Hegel 12
7. Chapter 2 / The Liberation of Experience: Nāgārjuna 29
8. Reading Experience II: Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them 44
9. Chapter 3 / The Genealogy of Experience: Nietzsche 47
10. Chapter 4 / The Microphysics of Experience: William James 62
11. Chapter 5 / The Reading of Experience 80
12. Reading Experience III: Hélène Cixous, 1938, nuits 93
13. Chapter 6 / The Experience of Reading 97
14. Reading Experience IV: Heinrich von Kleist, Die Marquise von O . . . 111
15. Chapter 7 / Reading Experiences 114
16. Coda: Singularity, University, Experience 125
17. Acknowledgments 133