Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Behind the Mask
Hegel?
PART ONE
1. Beyond the Serious
1.1. The Inwardizing and the Calvary
1.2. The Sovereignty of Servility
1.3.Work, Death
1.4. Beyond the Serious
2. The End of Utility
2.1. No Free Gifts
2.2. Unholy Alliances
2.3. Taking Sacrifice into Account
PART TWO
3. Logomachy: Through Discourse To Poetic Silence
3.1. A Contradictory Project
3.2. Hegelian Discourse: A "Dog" Eat Dog World
3.3. The Hatred of Poetry
4. Mysticism, Eroticism, and the Sacrificial Ruse
4.1. I Pray to GOD . . .
4.2. Eroticism and Sacrifice: The Body and the Fiction
4.3. Through the Mirror
LaughterIn Place of a Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index