Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.

• List of Abbreviations viiIntroduction: From the Interruption of Sense to the Poetics of Finitude 11 Descartes's Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time 232 Monograms: Writing Singular Plural 493 The "Singular Logic of the Retreat": Interruptions of the Political 784 Corpus Interruptus: Uncommon Sense and the Singular Crossingsof Eros, Logos, and Tekhnè 115Acknowledgments 163Notes 167Bibliography 197Index 209

Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.

• List of Abbreviations viiIntroduction: From the Interruption of Sense to the Poetics of Finitude 11 Descartes's Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time 232 Monograms: Writing Singular Plural 493 The "Singular Logic of the Retreat": Interruptions of the Political 784 Corpus Interruptus: Uncommon Sense and the Singular Crossingsof Eros, Logos, and Tekhnè 115Acknowledgments 163Notes 167Bibliography 197Index 209

Georges Van Den Abbeele is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau, the translator of five books by Jean-François Lyotard and others, and the editor or coeditor of numerous books and journal issues.

• List of Abbreviations viiIntroduction: From the Interruption of Sense to the Poetics of Finitude 11 Descartes's Iterative Cogito, or the Sum of Each and Every Time 232 Monograms: Writing Singular Plural 493 The "Singular Logic of the Retreat": Interruptions of the Political 784 Corpus Interruptus: Uncommon Sense and the Singular Crossingsof Eros, Logos, and Tekhnè 115Acknowledgments 163Notes 167Bibliography 197Index 209