Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Prophecy and the Temporality of Being Historical 1
6. Part One
7. 1. Secularization and the New Ends of History 27
8. 2. Prophecy within the Limits of Reason Alone 51
9. 3. Ghostlier Demarcations: Mysticism, Trauma, Anachronism 75
10. 4. Beyond the Sign of History: Prophetic Semiotics and the Future’s Reflection 103
11. Part Two
12. 5. The Future of an Allusion: Temporalization and Figure in Lyrical Drama 123
13. 6. Auguries of Experience: Impossible History and Infernal Redemption 141
14. 7. The Preface and Other False Starts: Prophesying the Book to Come 168
15. 8. “a woman clothed with the Sun”: Female Prophecy and Catastrophe 195
16. Afterword 223
17. Notes 227
18. Bibliography 253
19. Index 267