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Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix ONE Traces of Theory, Tropes of Modernity 1 TWO The Storyteller’s Ruins 27 THREE Monuments and Relics, I 53 FOUR Monuments and Relics, II 75 FIVE De Ánima, de Corpore: The Ruins of the Bourgeois World 105 SIX Modernity, Contingency, Compensation 143 SEVEN A Brief Return to the Ruin 179 Appendix 185 Notes 193 Works Cited 199 Index 211 䊏 v 䊏 ...

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