[Note: *signifies previously published, ° signifies to be written.]

1. Epistemology of Metaphor*

2. Pascal's Allegory of Persuasion*

3. Diderot's Battle of the Faculties°

4. Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant*

5. Sign and Symbol in Hegel's Aesthetics

6. Hegel on the Sublime

7. Aestheticism: Schiller and Friedrich Schlegel's Misreading of Kant and Fichte°

8. Critique of Religion and Political Ideology in Kierkegaard and Marx°

9. Rhetoric? Ideology (rhetorical conclusion)

The Resistance to Theory

1. The Resistance to Theory

2. Reading and History in H. R. Jauss

3. Hypogram and Inscription in Michael Riffaterre

4. The Ideology of the Body in Kenneth Burke and Roland Barthes°

5/6. Aesthetics and Society in Benjamin and Adorno

(with a concluding section on the theory of the resistance to theory)

Blindness and Insight

1. Criticism and Crisis

2. Form and Intent in the American New Criticism

3. Ludwig Binswanger and the Sublimation of the Self

4. Georg Lukac's Theory of the Novel

[sic] The Rhetoric of Blindness: Jacques Derrida's reading of Rousseau

5. Impersonality in the Criticism of Maurice Blanchot

6. The Literary Self as Origin: The Work of Georges Poulet

8. Literary History and Literary Modernity

9. The Rhetoric of Temporality

10. The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism Lyric and Modernity

12. Heidegger's Exegeses of Hölderlin