Table of Contents
The Anecdote: Introduction
From Antidote to Anecdote: Montaigne on Dissemblance
Exemplary or Singular?: The Anecdote in Historical Narrative
Oranges, Anecdote and the Nature of Things
To Be is to Be an Anecdote: Hegel and the Therapeutic Absolute
Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary
André Breton’s and Eugène Atget’s Valentines
The Anecdotal: Truth in Detail
Subtle Bodies and the Other Jouissance
The Aesthetic Fable: Cinema in Jacques Rancière’s “Aesthetic Politics”
Jean Genet: Politics and Performance (review)
Explorations in Poetics, and: La Poésie du lieu : Segalen, Thoreau, Guillevic, Ponge (review)
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form (review)