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Tables of Contents for The Western Theory of Tradition
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
The Cultural Sublime: Descartes, Kant, and Rembrandt
1
24
The Present Experience of Priority: Rembrandt and Jeremiah (and Isaiah and Ezekiel)
25
16
The Second-State Self in the Scene of Victimization and Resistance: Hegel and Virgil
41
18
The Surrealism of ``Respect'' for Tradition: Virgil, Homer, Kant
59
12
Apostrophe in the Westering Sublime: The Matrilineal Muse of Homer, Virgil, Dryden, Pope, and T. S. Eliot
71
18
Counterperiodization and the Colloquial: Wordsworth and ``the Days of Dryden and Pope''
89
21
The Reinvention of Desire: Milton's (and Ezekiel's) Sublime Melancholia
110
30
Self-Endangerment and Obliviousness in ``Personal Culture'': Goethe's ``Manifold'' Tasso
140
21
The Modernity of Learning: Baudelaire's and Delacroix's Tasso ``roulant un manuscrit''
161
19
Limping: Freud's Experience of Death in His Tassovian Line of Thought
180
21
The Real in the Commonplace: Sarraute's Feminine Sublime of Culture
201
21
Of the Fragment: In Memory of Our Son Yochanan
222
21
Notes
243
48
Index
291