Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Piecework

2. Thinking Barbarism Today

3. It’s All Greek to Me: The Barbarian in History

4. A Positive Barbarism?

5. Barbarism in Repetition: Literature’s Waiting for the Barbarians

6. Another “Kind of Solution”? Art’s Waiting for the Barbarians

7. New Barbarians

Afterword

Notes

References

Index