CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Something Out of the Ordinary 7
5. 2 The Interminable Shakespearean Text 28
6. 3 Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 61
7. 4 Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare 83
8. 5 Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow 111
9. 6 What Is the Scandal of Skepticism? 132
10. 7 Performative and Passionate Utterance 155
11. 8 The Wittgensteinian Event 192
12. 9 Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers 213
13. 10 The World as Things 236
14. Works Cited 283
15. Acknowledgments 291
16. Index 295