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Table of Contents

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A tragicomedy in two acts, a project in three parts

Paul Chan
pp. 2-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0033
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From the Sacrifice of the Letter to the Voice of Testimony: Giorgio Agamben’s Fulfillment of Metaphysics

Jeffrey S. Librett
pp. 11-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0023
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The Commandment against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”

Tracy McNulty
pp. 34-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0032
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Exception in Žižek’s Thought

Erik Vogt
pp. 61-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0027
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The Miracle of Metaphor: Rethinking the State of Exception with Rosenzweig and Schmitt

Bonnie Honig
pp. 78-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0029
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“Unauthorized Propositions”: The Federalist Papers and Constituent Power

Jason Frank
pp. 103-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0030
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Politics Is a Mushroom: Worldly Sources of Rule and Exception in Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin

Kam Shapiro
pp. 121-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0031
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Willing and Deciding: Hegel on Irony, Evil, and the Sovereign Exception

Andrew Norris
pp. 135-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0022
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“Above and Beneath Classification”: Bartleby, Life and Times of Michael K, and Syntagmatic Participation

Gert Buelens, Dominiek Hoens
pp. 157-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0024
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Visual Empire

Susan Buck-Morss
pp. 171-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0026
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Contributors

p. iii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0028
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Introduction: Taking Exception to the Exception

Jason Frank, Tracy McNulty
pp. 3-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.0.0025
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