Introduction
1 Free Particulars
2 The Law of the Heart: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke
3 The Kantian Imaginary
4 Schiller and Hegemony
5 The World as Artefact: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel
6 The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer
7 Absolute Ironies: Soren Kierkegaard
8 The Marxist Sublime
9 True Illusions: Friedrich Nietzsche
10 The Name of the Father: Sigmund Freud
11 The Politics of Being: Martin Heidegger
12 The Marxist Rabbi: Walter Benjamin
13 Art after Auschwitz: Theodor Adorno
14 From the Polis to Postmodernism
Index