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Cover 1 Contents 8 Preface 10 Preamble, or An Other Opening 12 Introduction, or The Reflections of the Doppelgänger 16 1. The Critique of Loneliness: The Genesis of the Doppelgänger 26 Isolation: Toward a Political Placement of the Doppelgänger 26 Harrington’s “Flies”: Kant’s Madness 31 The Black Nothing and the White Nothing: Jean Paul’s Clavis Fichtiana 38 The Return of Negation: Freud’s “The ‘Uncanny’” 52 “Double Acts” and Transformation 68 2. The Subject of Modernity: Law and Temporality in Alexandros Papadiamantes 81 . . . and . . . : The Doppelgänger as the Subject of Modernity 81 Community with the Dead: Self-Confession in The Murderess 90 The Penumbra: Obligations 105 3. The Task of the Doppelgänger: Jean Paul as Collocutor of Maurice Blanchot 121 4. The Politics of the Doppelgänger: Universal History and Cosmopolitanism 150 Automatism, Autonomy 150 The Subject of History in Walter Benjamin 159 Displacement: Figuring the Cosmopolitan in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things 180 5. Self-Inscriptions: Failing Kafka and Benjamin 207 The Pure Machine’s Gambit: Benjamin’s “Thesis I” 207 World Theater and Nature Theater 217 Kafka’s “Lost Gesture” 233 Lying with Benjamin 247 Notes 264 Bibli

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