Sadržaj:
  • Preamble: Travels in nihilon
  • (a) Philosophy begins in disappointment
  • (b) Pre-Nietzschean nihilism
  • (c) Nietzschean nihilism
  • (d) Responding to nihlism: five possibilities
  • (e) Heidegger's transformation of Nietzschean nihilism
  • (f) Heidegger 'contra' Jünger
  • (g) Impossible redemption: Adrono on nihilism
  • (h) Learning how to die - the argument
  • Lecture 1: Il y a
  • (a) Reading Blanchot
  • (b) How is literature possible?
  • (c) Orpheus, or the law of desire
  • (d) Blanchot's genealogy of morals: esteriority as desire, exteriority as law
  • (e) Il y a - the origin of the artwork
  • (i) first slope - Hegel avec Sade
  • (ii) second slope - a fate worse than death
  • (iii) ambiguity - Blanchot's secret
  • (f) The (im)possibility of death - or, how would Blanchot read Blanchot if he were not Blanchot?
  • (g) Holding Levinas's hand to Blanchot's fire
  • (i) a dying future
  • (ii) atheist transcendence
  • Lecture 2: Unworking romanticism
  • (a) Our naiveté
  • (i) Kantian fragmentation
  • (ii) deepest naivité - political romanticism
  • (iii) Hegel, Schlegel
  • (iv) romantic modernity
  • (b) Digression I: Imagination as resistance (Wallace Stevens)
  • (c) Romantic ambiguity
  • (i) the fragment
  • (ii) wit and irony
  • (iii) the non-romantic essence of romanticism
  • (d) Cavell's 'romanticism'
  • (i) the romanticization of everyday life
  • (ii) Emerson as the literary absolute
  • (e) Digression II: Why Stanley loves America and why we should too
  • (f) Cavell's romanticism
  • (i) I live my scepticism
  • (ii) Cavell's tragic wisdom
  • (iii) finiteness, limitedness
  • Lecture 3: Know happiness - on Beckett
  • (a) Beckett and philosophical interpretation
  • (b) The dredging machine (Derrida)
  • (c) The meaning of meaninglessness and the paradoxical task of interpretation (Adorno I)
  • (d) Hope against hope - the elevation of social sriticism to the level of form (Adorno II)
  • (e) Nothing is funnier than unhappiness - Beckett's laughter (Adorno III)
  • (f) Storytime, time of death (Molloy, Malone dies)
  • (g) My old aporetics - the syntax of weakness (The unnameable)
  • (h) Who speaks? Not I (Blanchot)
  • (i) No happiness? (Cavell)