In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent

Contents

contents  Acknowledgments ix Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account xi introduction. Signs of Place 1 1. Referent and Annihilation: ‘‘X’’ Marks the Spot 3 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant 9 3. ‘‘Sovereignty’’ over Language: Of Lice and Men 17 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ‘‘X’’ 24 part i. Goethe’s Timelessness 27 1. Faust’s Building: Theory as Practice 29 2. Faust’s and Heidegger’s Technology: Building as Poiesis 45 3. In the Place of Language 54 4. ‘‘Time Refound’’ 60 part ii. Built Time 63 1. Building, Story, and Image 65 2. Benjamin’s and Goethe’s Passagen: Ottilie under Glass 75 3. Nature in Pieces 93 4. ‘‘Superfluous Stones’’ 102 5. ‘‘Stones for Thought’’ 114 6. Kant’s and Goethe’s Schatzkammer: Buried Time 123 afterword. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent 133 Appendix. Continuation of Notes 145 Bibliography 163 ...