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Translator's Note
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Part I Programmatic Remarks On The Poetics Of Money
``For in This Sign All Now Can Find Salvation''--- On the Problem and Theme of a Monetary Ontosemiology
11
17
``Aut Prodesse aut Delectare''--- Literary History as the History of Problems
28
13
Part II Poetic Phenomenology Of Money
The Legibility of World and Money
41
17
The Materiality of Money (and of Literature)
58
19
``To Torment from Afar''---Money's Relational Mania
77
14
Money's Sex---Money Reproducing, Grandchildren, Compound Interest
91
36
Excursus: The Army, the Church, and the Alma Mater---A Caprice on Corporate Bodies
117
10
``Time Is Money''---The Time of Money/The Money of Time
127
20
Poetic Critique of Money---On the Hermeneutics of the Deficiency
147
14
Part III Ontosemiology Of Money
Equivalence, Indifference, Rings---Summary and Transition
161
18
What Counts? Money and Validity
179
20
Money: Symbol, Allegory, Fetish---Marx with Benjamin and Goethe
199
17
Schlemihl's Shadow---Nietzsche's Shadow
216
25
``The Source of the Center,'' or: the Gift of Money, the Gift of Poesie
241
10
Deconstruction of Money
251
10
Ruin/Ruins
261
15
The Medial Blood of the Economy---Klaus Heinrich or Dracula
276
11
Notes
287
34
Bibliography
321
18
Index
339