Intersections

Tilottama Rajan is Professor in the Department of English and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism and The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice. David L. Clark is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. He is coeditor of (with Donald Goellnicht) New Romanticism: Theory and Critical Practice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSpeculations: Idealism and its Rem(a)indersTilottama Rajan and David L. ClarkI: Between Idealism and Deconstruction Fictions of Authority: Kierkegaard, de Man, and the Ethics of ReadingChristopher NorrisMimesis and the End of ArtJohn Sallis"The Necessary Heritage of Darkness": Tropics of Negativity in Schelling, Derrida, and de ManDavid L. ClarkLanguage, Music, and the Body: Nietzsche and DeconstructionTilottama Rajan II: Rethinking the Subject Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy ConsciousnessJudith ButlerThe Ring of Being: Nietzsche, Freud, and the History of ConscienceNed LukacherImmediacy and Dissolution: Notes on the Languages of Moral Agency and Critical DiscourseThomas Pfau"Non-Identity": The German Romantics, Schelling and AdornoAndrew  Bowie III: Reinscribing History Complementarity, History, and the UnconsciousArkady PlotnitskyReconstructing Aesthetic Education: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Romantic HistoricismEric MeyerThe Romanticism  of Contemporary IdeologyPaul Hamilton IV: The End(s) of Theory The Return of the Romanticjean-Pierre MileurMoments of Discipline: Derrida, Kant, and the Genealogy of the SublimeMark CheethamOn Death and the Contingency of Criticism: Schopenhauer and de ManStanley CorngoldNotes on ContributorsIndex

"This book does much more than reassess certain currents in poststructuralism by returning to its preoccupation with such writers as the Jena Romantics, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. This book reminds us that poststructuralism is indeed only part of a larger coming to terms with philosophical issues of post-enlightenment theory. The writing in this book is characterized by integrity, care, andand brilliance. What is remarkable about this book is less its overall conception than its superb execution." — Alice Kuzniar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill