Introduction: Writerly Necessity
Part One: The Emergence of Literature as Absolute
Chapter One: Literature as Pure Writing
Chapter Two: The Literary Absolute
Chapter Three: The Born Poet
Threshold
Part Two: The Paradigm of Writerly Necessity
Chapter Four: Between the Subject and Language
Chapter Five: The Paradigm of Writerly Necessity
Chapter Six: The Writer Who Cannot Not-Desire to Write
Threshold
Part Three: Literary Criticism
Chapter Seven: The Author (Sincerity)
Chapter Eight: The Death of the Author (Intransitivity)
Chapter Nine: The Politics of a priori Poetry
Threshold
Part Four: Aesthetics
Chapter Ten: Literature in the Age of Criticism
Chapter Eleven: The Critic
Chapter Twelve: To Write as an Intransitive Verb
Threshold
Afterthought on Literary Inoperativity
Conclusion.