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Tables of Contents for Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
2
Introduction
xiii
Part I: Contingency
3
70
1 The contingency of language
3
20
2 The contingency of selfhood
23
21
3 The contingency of a liberal community
44
29
Part II: Ironism and Theory
73
68
4 Private irony and liberal hope
73
23
5 Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
96
26
6 From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida
122
19
Part III: Cruelty and Solidarity
141
58
7 The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
141
28
8 The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
169
20
9 Solidarity
189
10
Index of names
199