Thomas R. Flynn is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of Sartre and Marxist Existentialism: The Test Case of Collective Responsibility. Dalia Judovitz is Associate Professor in the French and Italian Department at Emory University. She is the author of Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity.

• Acknowledgments Introduction I. Philosophy and Literature: Crossing Borders 1. The Philosophy of Genre and the Genre of PhilosophyLouis Mackey 2. Helen and the Rape of Narrative: The Politics of DissuasionJames I. Porter II. The Poetic and the Political: Martin Heidegger 3. Two Faces of HeideggerGraeme Nicholson 4. Repositioning HeideggerHerman Rapaport 5. Stevens, Heidegger, and the Dialectics of Abstraction and Empathy in Poetic LanguageMatthias Konzett 6. Acoustics: Heidegger and Nietzsche on Words and MusicDennis J. Schmidt III. Contesting Modernities 7. Modernity and PostmodernityFred Dallmayr 8. Secularization and the Disenchantment of the WorldA. J. Cascardi 9. Modernity and the Misrepresentation of RepresentationStephen David Ross 10. Narrative, Dialectic, and Irony in Jameson and WhiteCandace D. Lang IV. Legitimacy and Truth 161 11. Reflections on the Anthropocentric Limits of Scientific Realism: Blumenberg on Myth, Reason, and the Legitimacy of the Modern AgeDavid Ingram 12. Blumenberg's Third Way: Between Habermas and GadamerRobert M. Wallace 13. History, Art, and Truth: Wellmer's Critique of AdornoLambert Zuidervaart V. Narrative Fictions: Theaters of Danger 14. Tragic Fiction of Identity and the Narrative SelfDana Rudelic 15. Ethical Ellipsis in NarrativeCarol L. Bernstein 16. Dialectics of Experience: Brecht and the Theater of DangerDavid Halliburton VI. Beyond Dialectics: At the Limits of Formalization 17. At the Limits of FormalizationJoseph Arsenault and Tony Brinkley 18. On Fate: Psychoanalysis and the Desire to KnowCharles Shepherdson Notes Notes on Contributors Notes on Editors Index