CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Dialectics at a Standstill

2. Berlin and Delos

Celan’s No-Places and Heidegger’s Homecomings: Philosophy and Poetry Out of Material History

3. Sicily, New York City, and the Baranovich Station

German/Jewish Subject Without a Nation: On the Meta-epistemology of Mobility and Mass Migration

4. The North Sea

Jews on Ships; or, How Heine’s Reisebilder Deconstruct Hegel’s Philosophy of World History

5. Nuremberg-Fürth-Palestine

Some Assembly Required: Global Anxieties and Corporeal Fantasies of German/Jewish Nationality

6. Auschwitz

“The Fabrication of Corpses”: Heidegger, Arendt, and the Modernity of Mass Death

7. Vienna-Rome-Prague-Antwerp-Paris

The Railway Ruins of Modernity: Freud and Sebald on the Narration of German/Jewish Remains

Concluding Remarks

NOTES

INDEX