Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translators’ Note ix
4. 1. Creation and Salvation 1
5. 2. What Is the Contemporary? 10
6. 3. K. 20
7. 4. On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters 37
8. 5. On What We Can Not Do 43
9. 6. Identity without the Person 46
10. 7. Nudity 55
11. 8. The Glorious Body 91
12. 9. Hunger of an Ox: Considerations on the Sabbath, the Feast, and Inoperativity 104
13. 10. The Last Chapter in the History of the World 113
14. Notes 115
15. Credits 121
16. Crossing Aesthetics 123