Auden's O by Hass, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Epicycle

“Nothing will come of nothing” Falsetto Auden’s Circumlocution

Chapter 0: Introduction

Giotto’s O The Binary The Binary Code The Binary Code Cracked The Paradigm The Paradigm Shift The Paradigm Rift The Modern The Modern Crisis

Part One: From Religion and Philosophy to Artifice

Chapter One: The Sovereignty of One

One’s Punch Line From the Many, One: The Hebrews The Nature of One: The Presocratics The Metaphysics of One: Plato, Aristotle

Plato Aristotle

The Wholly, Plenary One: Plotinus The Christian One: Paul The Paradigms of One

The Catholic One The Modern One

One’s Retreat

Chapter Two: The Revolutions of O

The Romeo Effect Zero and its History Ground Zero Mirror/Speculum/Eye The Artificer’s Circle The Hermeneutical Circle I The Author’s O Eternal Recurrence

Part Two: Poesis’ Figure—The Making of O

Chapter Three: Shakespeare’s Eye of the Storm

Lear’s Tragic O Shakespeare’s Specular O Caliban’s Negating O

Chapter Four: Reflections of Auden

W. H. Auden The Sea and the Mirror

Title Page The Frame Preface Prospero to Ariel Supporting Cast Caliban to the Audience Postscript

Chapter Five: The Empty Middle

Originating O (Blanchot) Historicizing O Alternate Os of the Middle

James Joyce T. S. Eliot Samuel Beckett Luis Borges Paul Celan Georges Bataille Dominique Aury/Anne Desclos Italo Calvino

The O of Auden The Erotics of O Simone de Beauvoir

Part III: Looking After O

Chapter Six: The Remaking of Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy and Religion: Inside the Perimeter Negation’s Triumvirate: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger

Hegel Nietzsche Heidegger

Before the Postmodern: Sartre Through the Postmodern: Derrida, Irigaray

Derrida Irigaray

Out of the Postmodern: Badiou gOd—Postmortem Theology

Chapter Seven: The Future of O?

Auden’s Brecht The Parabolic Within Pontius Pilate in the Creed The Other Rogue The Rogue Within

Another Epicycle

The Truest O is the Most Feigning “Signifying Nothing”

Notes Bibliography of Cited Works Index Back Cover