Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Introduction 1
4. Prologue: A Site for Philosophy? 14
5. Part I. Departures
6. 1. Time after Time 21
7. 2. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting 33
8. 3. The Division of Talent 72
9. 4. To Place Wittgenstein 93
10. 5. Notes after Austin 101
11. Part II. Assignments
12. 6. Silences Noises Voices 111
13. 7. Benjamin and Wittgenstein: Signals and Affinities 120
14. 8. Remains to Be Seen: Initial Responses to The Arcades Project 132
15. 9. Finding Words: Adam Phillips’s Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis 138
16. 10. Welcoming Jean Laplanche 153
17. 11. On a Psychoanalytical Response to Faulkner’s Form 158
18. 12. Notes Mostly about Empathy 164
19. 13. Comments on Veena Das, “Language and Body” 181
20. 14. Foreword to Veena Das, Life and Words 187
21. 15. Foreword to Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective 193
22. 16. In the Meantime 201
23. 17. Who Disappoints Whom? Allan Bloom at Harvard 210
24. 18. Preface to the Italian Edition of The Claim of Reason 215
25. 19. Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke 223
26. 20. Foreword to Qu’est-ce que la philosophie américaine? 241
27. Part III. Music
28. 21. An Understanding with Music 247
29. 22. Kivy on Idomeneo 255
30. 23. Philosophy and the Unheard 260
31. 24. Impressions of Revolution 269
32. 25. A Scale of Eternity 279
33. Epilogue: Bon Voyage 287
34. Appendix: Draft Preface to Here and There 291
35. Notes 293
36. Editors’ Acknowledgments 309
37. Index 311