The Infinite Conversation

Contents......Page 6
Note......Page 12
Foreword. This Double Exigency: Naming the Possible, Responding to the Impossible......Page 26
Translator's Acknowledgments......Page 36
I. PLURAL SPEECH (the speech of writing)......Page 38
I. Thought and the Exigency of Discontinuity......Page 40
1......Page 48
2......Page 51
3......Page 54
III. Speaking Is Not Seeing......Page 62
1......Page 70
2. How to discover the obscure?......Page 77
V. Knowledge of the Unknown......Page 86
VI. Keeping to Words......Page 96
VII. The Relation of the Third Kind (man without horizon)......Page 103
VIII. Interruption (as on a Riemann surface)......Page 112
IX. A Plural Speech......Page 117
II. THE LIMIT-EXPERIENCE......Page 120
I. Heraclitus......Page 122
II. Measure, the Suppliant......Page 130
III. Tragic Thought......Page 133
1......Page 143
2......Page 151
1. Being Jewish......Page 160
2. Humankind......Page 167
1. Nietzsche, today......Page 173
2. Crossing the line......Page 180
3. Nietzsche and fragmentary writing......Page 188
1......Page 208
2. Logical victory over "the absurd"......Page 213
3. You can kill that man......Page 219
4. Orpheus, Don Juan, Tristan......Page 224
On forgetting......Page 231
The great confinement......Page 233
1. Affirmation and the passion of negative thought......Page 239
2. The play of thought......Page 248
3. Insurrection, the madness of writing......Page 254
X. The Speech of Analysis......Page 267
XI. Everyday Speech......Page 275
1......Page 283
2......Page 294
XIII. On a Change of Epoch: The Exigency of Return......Page 301
III. THE ABSENCE OF THE BOOK (the neutral, the fragmentary)......Page 320
I. The Final Work......Page 322
II. Cruel Poetic Reason (the rapacious need for flight)......Page 330
III. René Char and the Thought of the Neutral......Page 335
IV. The Fragment Word......Page 344
V. Forgetful Memory......Page 351
VI. Vast as the night......Page 355
VII. Words Must Travel Far......Page 363
Flaubert......Page 369
Roussel......Page 373
IX. A rose is a rose......Page 376
X. Ars Nova......Page 382
XI. The Athenaeum......Page 388
XII. The Effect of Strangeness......Page 397
XIII. The End of the Hero......Page 405
XIV. The Narrative Voice (the "he," the neutral)......Page 416
XV. The Wooden Bridge (repetition, the neutral)......Page 425
XVI. Literature One More Time......Page 434
XVII. Tomorrow at Stake......Page 444
XVIII. The Absence of the Book......Page 459
Notes......Page 474
B......Page 502
E......Page 503
J......Page 504
M......Page 505
P......Page 506
S......Page 507
W......Page 508