Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters
  • Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination
  • "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism
  • Global America and the logics of vision
  • America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies
  • Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life
  • "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James
  • Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati
  • Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.