Acknowledgments | xi | ||
Abbreviations | xiii | ||
INTRODUCTION Passages of the Extravagant | 1 | (47) | |
CHAPTER ONE The Sublime in Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard | 48 | (43) | |
CHAPTER TWO Faustian Quest in Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille | 91 | (84) | |
CHAPTER THREE Apocalyptic Negativity in Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Mallarmé, and Derrida | 175 | (90) | |
CONCLUSION The Dialectic of Instrumental Society and Creative Negativity | 265 | (34) | |
EPILOGUE The Miracle of Place | 299 | (13) | |
Notes | 312 | (53) | |
Bibliography | 365 | (15) | |
Index | 380 |