Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations xii
List of Illustrations xv
Introduction: The Event Named Wilde, or, Wilde with Deleuze 1
The Spectre of Hegel 4
The Shadow of Plato 9
The Simulacrum of Wilde 16
1 Intentions 28
The Function of Criticism 30
On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense 41
Interpretations 48
2 Intensities 54
Writing History 56
Intensive Life 64
Eternal Return 78
3 Proper Names 92
A Rose by any Other Name 95
Suppose there were two Cratyluses or three Robertes 99
The Importance of Being E(a)rnest, or, Wilde with Klossowski 108
4 Doubles 115
Narcissism 118
Fascination, Domination, Influence 126
5 Commodities 133
Phantasmagoria 135
Fashions and Dandies 145
Prostitutes 154
6 Bodies 166
Bodies that Matter 167
The Body of the Condemned 172
Base Materialism 179
Simulacral Bodies 184
Theoretical Sexualities 199
7 Women 207
Supposing Truth were a Woman 210
Digression on the tableau vivant 216
The Woman in the Moon 223
Dancing 239
8 Styles 255
Paradoxes and the Logic of Sense 258
Skin Deep: Surfaces 265
Style-in-itself 269
Politics 273
Conclusion: Wilde's Ethics of Joy 279
No Laughing Matter 281
Prison Writings 288
The Ethics of Aestheticism 297
Bibliography 305
Index 334
Index of Names, Places and Texts 335
Index of Concepts and Subjects 346
