Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.

• Part I Guilts and debts: fate and sacrifice; dialectics and the ban on images; constellation and de-constitution. Part II Inaugurations; counter-turning of the beginning; rise and downfall; keeping to the names. Afterword: the reeling philosopher.

Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.

• Part I Guilts and debts: fate and sacrifice; dialectics and the ban on images; constellation and de-constitution. Part II Inaugurations; counter-turning of the beginning; rise and downfall; keeping to the names. Afterword: the reeling philosopher.

Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.

• Part I Guilts and debts: fate and sacrifice; dialectics and the ban on images; constellation and de-constitution. Part II Inaugurations; counter-turning of the beginning; rise and downfall; keeping to the names. Afterword: the reeling philosopher.