Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death (Textures: Philosophy/Literature/Culture Series) Book

	General Introduction
Pt. 1	An Other Beauty	3
1	Feeling the Difference	4
Pt. 2	Art and the Turn to the Postmodern	15
2	Breton's Post-Hegelian Modernism	17
3	Postponing the Future: Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde	29
4	When Less Is More, More or Less: Subtraction and Addition in (Post)Modernist Poetics	40
Pt. 3	The Impossible Place of Literature	53
5	Chora and Character: Mimesis of Difference in Plato's Timaeus	56
6	The Place of Boredom: Blanchot Not Reading Proust	67
7	Literature, Film, and Virtuality: Technology's Cutting Edge	78
Pt. 4	The Rhetoric of the Political	91
8	Rhetoric, Politics, Romance: Arendt and Heidegger, 1924-26	94
9	Hannah Arendt: Literary Criticism and the Political	110
10	The Politics of Fascism, or Consuming the Flesh of the Other	124
Pt. 5	The Political Imaginary	139
11	Post-Colonialism and History: Are We Responsible for the Past?	142
12	Indigenous-Becoming in the Post-Colonial Polity	152
13	The Post-Colonial Threshold of Capacity: "The Other! The Other!"	163
Pt. 6	Extreme Beauty - Death, Glory	177
14	The Simulacrum of Death: Perniola Beyond Heidegger and Metaphysics?	180
15	A Deadly Gift: To Derrida, from Kierkegaard and Bataille	194
16	Glory in Levinas and Derrida	208
	Abbreviations	223
	Notes	225
	Bibliography	245
	Index	255
	Contributors	258
	Editors	260