Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Historical Forms of Exemplarity
6. Take the Bible for Example: Midrash as Literary Theory 27
7. Example versus Historia: Montaigne, Eriugena, and Dante 48
8. Circe's Drink and Sorbonnic Wine: Montaigne's Paradox of Experience 86
9. The Discourse of the Example: An "Example," Chapter IV of the First Part of The Logic of Port-Royal 104
10. PART II. Exemplarity in Literature
11. Fables of Responsibility 121
12. The Pragmatics of Exemplary Narrative 142
13. Parabolic Exemplarity: The Example of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra 162
14. "The Beauty of Failure": Kafka and Benjamin on the Task of Transmission and Translation 175
15. PART III. Exemplarity in Philosophy
16. Exemplarity and the Origins of Legislation 211
17. Kant's Examples 255
18. The Force of Example: Kant's Symbols 277
19. Of the Eye and the Law 303
20. Notes 327
21. Index 373