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Contents acknowledgments / xi list of abbreviations / xiii Introduction / 1 PART ONE. SEEING Allegory 1 / 9 1. The Metaphysical Chiasm / 13 2. The Existential Chiasm / 35 3. The Aesthetical Chiasm / 57 PART TWO. HEARING Allegory 2 / 73 4. Prelude: Figures of Silence / 75 5. Interlude: Language beyond Difference and Otherness / 93 6. Postlude: The Interrupted Self / 109 PART THREE. TOUCHING Allegory 3 / 119 7. Touch Me, Touch Me Not / 123 8. The Sabbath of Experience / 143 notes / 159 bibliography / 199 index / 211 ...

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