Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-248) and index.
1. Surplus Being: The Kantian Legacy -- 2. The Poetics of Authorship: Kierkegaard's Dilemma -- 3. Heidegger's Poetics of the Possible -- 4. Heidegger's Gods -- 5. Ideology and Utopia: The Social Imaginary (Ricoeur I) -- 6. Hermeneutics of Myth and Tradition (Ricoeur II) -- 7. The Narrative Imagination: Between Poetics and Ethics (Ricoeur III) -- 8. Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining -- 9. Ethics and the Right to Resist: Patocka's Testimony -- 10. Myth and Sacrificial Scapegoats: On Rene Girard -- 11. Derrida's Ethical Return -- 12. Derrida's Ethics of Dialogue -- 13. Myths of Utopia and Ideology: From Yeats to Joyce -- 14. Postmodern Mirrors of Fiction: Rushdie, Wolfe, and Kundera -- 15. Painting and Postmodernity.