Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I. The Body Erotic
1. Fire and Roses
2. The Stranger as Guest: Toward a Philosophical Site for Postmodern Thinking
3. Love's New Body
4. The Magic of Desire
5. The Intentions of Eros: Popular Cults of Beauty and the Signs of Fashion
Section II. The Body Tragic
6. The Deconstructive Imagination: Text as Body, Body as Text
7. The Dialectics of Sacrifice
8. The Transformation Myth and the End of the "Myth of History"
9. Freud and the Psychoanalytic Enigma
Section III. The Body Transfigurative
10. Rhythm Is a Dancer
Index