| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Literature and the Ethics of the Other | 1 |
| I | Narratives of History | 9 |
| 1 | Counterfactual Artefacts: Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History | 11 |
| 2 | The Rhetoric of Forgetting: Brecht and the Historical Avant-garde | 26 |
| II | Sexual Difference, Power and Signification | 67 |
| 3 | The Castration of Cassandra | 69 |
| 4 | Female Reason and Symbolic Violence | 82 |
| 5 | Adultery as Critique | 96 |
| 6 | Abjection in the Texts of Walter Benjamin | 106 |
| III | Sexual Politics and National Identity | 127 |
| 7 | Prefigurative Racism in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris | 129 |
| 8 | Sexuality in Robert Musil's Young Torless | 139 |
| 9 | Space, Gender and National Identity | 155 |
| IV | Between Enlightenment and Postmodernism: The Ethics of Art and Gender | 165 |
| 10 | Popular Literature in the Third Reich | 167 |
| 11 | Enlightenment, Sexual Difference and the Autonomy of Art | 179 |
| 12 | Unreal Presences: Allegory in Paul de Man and Walter Benjamin | 193 |
| 13 | Writing, Image, Reality | 204 |
| 14 | From the Dialectic of Force to The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Re-reading the Odyssey | 220 |
| Index | 247 |
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