Table of Contents
Equivalence Unbalanced 1
Metaphor, Case, and Example
Art Awaits Its Explanation 14
Recent Interest in Adorno
The Scandal of Metaphorology 34
Blumenberg's Challenge
Blumenberg in Davos 53
The Cassirer-Heidegger Controversy Reconsidered
Art is Messianicity: Radical Illustration in the Face of God Jacques Derrida Romeo Castellucci Antonello da Messina 68
The Phaocentrism of the Eye 81
From Longinus to Merleau-Ponty
Confessio Infirmitatis or Productive Digression 91
Iconic Difference Taken Apart and Put to Good Use in Legal Affairs
In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside 105
On Interiors and Interiority
To Conceive of, in Pictures 121
An Episode from the History of Knowledge
Christ's Case 147
Doubled Mimesis, Martyrdom Transfigured
To Destroy Painting: The Baroque Caesura of History 156
Louis Marin Mourning the Revolution
Chaos by Design 171
The Light-Sound Constellation
Mass Times Acceleration 185
Rhetoric as the Meta-Physics of Aesthetics
A Narrow Thing Within One Word 200
The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times
Life in the Sonnets 216
Shakespearean Intuitions
Mirror Effects in Euphantasy Land 226
The Unholy Alliance of Selection and Evolution
Index of Names 231