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C O n T e n T s List of Illustrations xi Translator’s Preface xiii Author’s Preface xv Prelude: A “Je ne Sais Quoi . . .” xvii 1. The Stage of Vision 1 2. The Work of the Gaze 22 3. Seeingness; or, The Eye of the Phantasm 36 4. The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile; il Furore 56 5. The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness 79 6. Palimpsests of the Ungazeable 94 Finale: The Burning of Vision 114 Notes 123 Bibliography 145 Index 155 ...

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