To Conceive of, in Pictures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Equivalence Unbalanced 1
5. Art Awaits Its Explanation 14
6. The Scandal of Metaphorology 34
7. Blumenberg in Davos 53
8. Art is Messianicity: Radical Illustration in the Face of God 68
9. The Phaocentrism of the Eye 81
10. Confessio Infirmitatis or Productive Digression 91
11. In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside 105
12. To Conceive of, in Pictures 121
13. Christ’s Case 147
14. To Destroy Painting: The Baroque Caesura of History 156
15. Chaos by Design 171
16. Mass Times Acceleration 185
17. A Narrow Thing Within One Word 200
18. Life in the Sonnets 216
19. Mirror Effects in Euphantasy Land 226
20. Index of Names 231