13. Virtuosity and Effectuality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Particularized Preface
4. 1. Acknowledgments qua Inductive Overture 1
5. General Introduction
6. 2. Concerning Determinism and Contingency 13
7. Theories
8. 3. Aristotle’s Contingency 61
9. 4. From Aristotle to Quintilian, and Beyond 143
10. Methods
11. 5. Induction and Contingency 219
12. Mise en Scène
13. 6. Contingency and Cynicism in Celestina 287
14. 7. Brutal Latencies. On the Crafting of Political Union 373
15. 8. Otherwise. Rhetorical Techniques of Contradiction 421
16. 9. Make Life Art—An Immoral Imperative 473
17. Philosophistics
18. 10. Life Being Brief (No Need to Cut It Short)— Concerning Blumenberg’s Senecan Affinities 507
19. 11. Blumenberg’s Rhetoric—With a Case Study on Fontane 613
20. 12. Blumenberg’s Fauna 695
21. 13. Virtuosity and Effectuality 737
22. Bibliography 783
23. Index 865