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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Plot and the One-by-One
Part I: Poetry: Necessity and Plot in Aristotle and Eighteenth-Century German Criticism
1 Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions
Universals and tragic plot
The catharsis of events
Suspense for the sake of suspense
The riven Poetics
2 Contingency, Connection, and Possible Worlds: History and Poetry in Gottsched’s Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst
Borrowing from the possible
Unruly Scharfsinnigkeit
Fabel and possible realities
Clear connections and the constraints of Zusammenhang
Real connections in fabulated narratives
Part II: History: Aesthetic Connection in Historical Knowledge and Historical Composition
3 Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier
Temporality and aesthetics in cognitio historica
Perfect and beautiful knowledge
Narrative knowledge and the temporality of history
4 “On the Wings of Imagination”: Wholeness and Spontaneity in Kant’s Philosophy of Universal History
Judgment and history
Teleology and history
The effectivity of historical form
Freedom, spontaneity, and the infinitesimal
Continuity and the novel of history
Humboldt’s mediated representation
Benjamin and Kant
5 Not Benjamin’s Ranke: On the Aesthetics of Historicism
Form in Hegelian historicism
Ranke’s constructed historicism
Not progress, not development
Ranke and ideology
Old and older historicism
Part III: Epochality: On Phenomenology’s Appeals to a Disconnected Past
6 Heidegger and the Plot of Metaphysics
Dasein’s historicity
The emplotment of inquiry
The epochal history of metaphysics
The disappearance of history
Freedom and the history of being
7 Arendt’s Epochal Phenomenology: History and the New
Anti-Semitism in Origins of Totalitarianism
Freedom or narrative: Competing Kantianisms
The totalitarianism of “process”
Arendt’s realist Kantianism
8 Speaking for the Past: On Begriffsgeschichte and the Language of Other Epochs
Connections to the past
Temporalities and the conditions of history
Narrative and phenomenology: Mutual interferences
Koselleck’s exemplary phenomenology
Conclusion: Wholeness and its Sabotage
Bibliography
Index
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