Introduction: French Revolution, German Misère
Missed revolutions : translation, transmission, trauma." ... an impossibly speedy motion" ; Translatio imperii ; Copernican and other revolutions ; "The magic wand of analogy" ; Noch nicht unddoch schon ... ; Translation as trauma
The Kantian Theater. Crimen inexpiabile ; Shipwreck with spectator ; The abyss of form ; Diabolical? ; Moral revolution ; Another scene
The corpse of faith. Revolution or reform? ; Dead right ; Erasures ; Terror as melancholia ; Of kings and cabbages ; Horror vacui
Revolution at a distance, or, Moral terror. Philosophical thermidor ; " ... another land" ; From terror to anxiety ; Morality as slave ideology ; Kant as terrorist ; First step: Morality as perversion ; Second step: Perversion as aestheticism ; Third step: Aestheticism as ideology ; Vaporized subjectivity
Terrors of the Tabula Rasa. Antinomies of forgiveness ; "Rushing toward reconciliation" ; Wounds of spirit ; Politics of forgiveness? ; World soul on horseback ; "The self-moving life of the dead" ; Gray on Gray (Hegel, Beckett, Richter) ; "As if it had learned nothing ..." ; "We, the masters ..."