CONTENTS

Analogies

 

1. Incipit

2. Last Things

3. Closeness

4. The Untied Shoelace

5. Rorschach Test

6. Plateau Rosa

7. Being

8. Epochs

9. The Impossible Return

10. Debut

11. On the Banks of the Neckar

12. “Mad, utterly desperate study”

13. Vampires

14. Paradigms

15. Popular Novel

16. Oratory

17. Catholic Action

18. Beyond the Horizon

19. Working-Class School

20. Demonic Possession

21. Ulcer and Mao

22. The Dream of a Thing

23. Take a King and Thrash Him

24. Porta Palazzo

25. From Heidegger to Marx

26. The Movement

27. State of Grace

28. The Bicycle Left Behind

29. Lukács’s Slippers

30. Forced Out

31. In America

32. The Two Boys

33. Death Threats

34. Revolutionary Moralism

35. Weak Thought

36. Roots

37. Terraces

38. A Safe Pair of Hands

39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought

40. The World

41. In History

42. In Human Conversation

43. Barbarians

44. Science’s Positive Side

45. Obituaries

46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari

47. Obituaries Three: Eco

48. Under a Bad Sign

49. With the Younger Son

50. The Frankfurt School

51. The Rich Fiancée

52. The Little Old Lady in New York

53. Almost a Mayor

54. The End of Prehistory?

55. Joachim of Fiore

56. At a Certain Hour

57. Return to Christianity

58. Some Reality, Please

59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist

60. Evil, What a Pity

61. If I Weren’t God

62. Compline

63. The Treasure Chest of Being

64. Flashes

 

Envoi

Abbreviations

Index