Abbreviations of Works | p. vii |
Preface to the English-Language Edition: Reading and the Right to Death | p. ix |
Liminary Note | p. xix |
Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville | |
The Double Enclosure | p. 3 |
"I" | p. 6 |
The Event, or Reading Without Heading | p. 10 |
The Aura of the Weather | p. 14 |
Before Sight, the Voice | p. 15 |
Outside-Inside | p. 17 |
Naming and Meteoromancy | p. 19 |
Prosthesis and Prophecy | p. 23 |
Retroprospection | p. 29 |
Deluge and Delirium | p. 31 |
Leaks (Over and Beyond the Archive) | p. 36 |
"Leviathan is the text," or Generalized Meteorism | p. 40 |
The Fire, the Bonds | p. 48 |
Lost at Sea [Déboussolé] | p. 51 |
The Laws of Fishing and of Reading | p. 53 |
In Detachment (Dis-Contraction) | p. 56 |
Return to Sender (the Dead Postman) | p. 61 |
Through the Tomb | p. 67 |
Spectral Evidence | p. 70 |
Backfire | p. 75 |
Isolation, the Bubble, and the Future of the Text | p. 79 |
Post-Scriptum: On Whiteness and Beheading | p. 86 |
Afterword: Ipsology (Selves of Peter Szendy) | p. 95 |
Notes | p. 129 |
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