CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Anne Luyat

Introduction: ‘An emotion of thought’

Nidesh Lawtoo

Prologue: Revisiting ‘Heart of Darkness Revisited’ (in the company of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)

J. Hillis Miller

Part One: Mythic Darkness

1 Heart of Darkness revisited

J. Hillis Miller

2 Modernism, myth and Heart of Darkness

Michael Bell

3 Civilization and its darkness

Jonathan Dollimore

Part Two: Conrad avec Lacoue-Labarthe

4 A frame for ‘The Horror of the West’

Nidesh Lawtoo

5 The horror of the West

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

6 Philippe’s lessons of darkness

François Warin

Part Three: The Affect of Ideology

7 La lettre, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe: Heart of Darkness redux

Stephen Ross

8 The voice of darkness

Claude Maisonnat

9 The horror of trauma: Mourning or melancholia in Heart of Darkness?

Beth S. Ash

Part Four: The Echo of the Horror

10 Conrad’s Dionysian elegy

Henry Staten

11 Sounding the hollow heart of the West: X-rays and the technique de la mort

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

12 The horror of mimesis: Echoing Lacoue-Labarthe

Nidesh Lawtoo

Postface: A talk with Avital Ronell (about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)

Bibliography

Index