The Infinite Conversation (Theory and History of Literature Series) Book

	Note
	Foreword. This Double Exigency: Naming the Possible, Responding to the Impossible
	Translator's Acknowledgments
I	Plural Speech: (the speech of writing)
I	Thought and the Exigency of Discontinuity	3
II	The Most Profound Question	11
III	Speaking Is Not Seeing	25
IV	The Great Refusal	33
V	Knowledge of the Unknown	49
VI	Keeping to Words	59
VII	The Relation of the Third Kind (man without horizon)	66
VIII	Interruption (as on a Riemann surface)	75
IX	A Plural Speech	80
II	The Limit-Experience
I	Heraclitus	85
II	Measure, the Suppliant	93
III	Tragic Thought	96
IV	Affirmation (desire, affliction)	106
V	The Indestructible	123
VI	Reflections on Nihilism	136
VII	Reflections on Hell	171
VIII	Forgetting, Unreason	194
IX	The Limit-Experience	202
X	The Speech of Analysis	230
XI	Everyday Speech	238
XII	Atheism and Writing. Humanism and the Cry	246
XIII	On a Change of Epoch: The Exigency of Return	264
III	The Absence of the Book (the neutral, the fragmentary)
I	The Final Work	285
II	Cruel Poetic Reason (the rapacious need for flight)	293
III	Rene Char and the Thought of the Neutral	298
IV	The Fragment Word	307
V	Forgetful Memory	314
VI	Vast as the night	318
VII	Words Must Travel Far	326
VIII	Wittgenstein's Problem	332
IX	A rose is a rose...	339
X	Ars Nova	345
XI	The Athenaeum	351
XII	The Effect of Strangeness	360
XIII	The End of the Hero	368
XIV	The Narrative Voice (the "he," the neutral)	379
XV	The Wooden Bridge (repetition, the neutral)	388
XVI	Literature One More Time	397
XVII	Tomorrow at Stake	407
XVIII	The Absence of the Book	422
	Notes	437
	Index	465