Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-249) and index
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For theory -- European intellectual history and the specter of multiculturalism -- Songs of experience : reflections on the debate over Alltagsgchichte -- Experience without a subject : Walter Benjamin and the novel -- The limits of limit-experience : Bataille and Foucault -- No power to the Soviets -- Who's afraid of Christa Wolf? Thoughts on the dynamics of cultural subversion -- Postmodern fascism? Reflections on the return of the repressed -- Educating the educators -- The aesthetic alibi -- Mimesis and mimetology : Adorno and Lacoue-Labarthe -- The academic woman as performance artist -- Abjection overruled -- The uncanny nineties -- Modernism and the specter of psychologism -- Modern and postmodern paganism : Peter Gay and Jean-François Lyotard -- The manacles of Gavrilo Princip