Preface
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Measuring Shadows
CHAPTER TWO Mnemosyne's Loss and Stolen Memories
Remembering Hans Georg Gadamer
Mnemosyne and Lethe
Heidegger and Derrida
A Notation on Mnemosynic Thinking
Stolen Memories: An Excursus on Memorial Fusions
CHAPTER THREE On Originating and Presenting Another Time: The Art of Tragedy
First Fragmentary Image
Memory-Time
Sublime Foreigners
A Second Fragment
Memory and the Future of Dionysian Thought (Without Prophecy)
Last Fragment
CHAPTER FOUR Powers of Transformation within a Memorial Reading: Narratives of Dionysus
Dionysus
Dionysian Memory and Thought
An Excursus on Sanity and a Sublime Aspect of Dionysian Occurrences
Dionysian Self-Criticism
CHAPTER FIVE The "Power" of Nondetermination with Determinations in Appearances
Engagement and Encounter
Apollinian Force
Nature, Ecstasy, and the Sublime
CHAPTER SIX Institutional Songs and Involuntary Memory: Where Do "We" Come From?
Locating the Present-Past
CHAPTER SEVEN When the Company of Time Casts No Shadow: Memory of Differences and Nondetermination
A Transition to Orders of Disorder by Means of Dionysus' Masks
Orders of Samenesses and DifferencesAnd In Between Them
Similitude and a Birth of Difference in Binary Structures: An Exposition
Establishing Discontinuities
An Instance of Establishing Discontinuity: Signs of Representation
The Space of a Question
Frameworks for Analyses: An Excursus on Full Houses
CHAPTER EIGHT Repetitions and Differenciations
Singularities
Liberation from Common Sense and Good Spirit
Singularity and Memory
CHAPTER NINE Gifts of Fire: Witnessing and Representing
Trace and Blindness: Witnessing the Touch
CHAPTER TEN A Symptom of Life in the Absence of Light
The Worldliness of "Inner," Private Experience
Meaning Is the Face of the Other
A Sense of the Absence of Light in Relations
Return to Infinite Meaning
CHAPTER ELEVEN Gifts without Fire: Thinking and Remembering
What We Philosophers Do
Strategies for Thinking (With Attention to Its Drawing Powers)
Two Strategies for Thinking
Thought and Ethos
Observing in a Subjunctive Mood
Notes
Index