Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Diremption of Spirit.

Part One From the Middle in the Beginning.

1. Personae of the System: Kierkegaard, Hegel and Blanchot.

2. Regina and Felice - In Repetition of Her: Kierkegaard and Kafka.

3. Anxiety of Beginning: Kierkegaard, Freud and Lacan.

Part Two From the Beginning in the Middle.

4. Repetition in the Feast: Mann and Girard.

5. Love and the State: Varnhagen, Luxemburg and Arendt.

6. New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation: Levinas, Rosenzweig and Fackenheim.

Preface: Pathos of the Concept.

Select Bibliography.

Index

About the Author

Gillian Rose is the author of Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law, Hegel Contra Sociology and The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno.

Reviews

"... This book is one of the most important written by a British philosopher and social theorist in recent times." John Milbank