Prologue: a site for philosophy?
Part I. Departures. 1. Time after time ; 2. The world as things: collecting thoughts on collecting ; 3. The division of talent ; 4. To place Wittgenstein ; 5. Notes after Austin
Part II. Assignments. 6. Silences noises voices ; 7. Benjamin and Wittgenstein: signals and affinities ; 8. Remains to be seen: initial responses to The arcades project ; 9. Finding words: Adam Phillips's ordinary language psychoanalysis ; 10. Welcoming Jean Laplanche ; 11. On a psychoanalytical response to Faulkner's form ; 12. Notes mostly about empathy ; 13. Comments on Veena Das, "Language and body" ; 14. Foreword to Veena Das, Life and words ; 15. Foreword to Northrop Frye, A natural perspective ; 16. In the meantime ; 17. Who disappoints whom? Allan Bloom at Harvard ; 18. Preface to the Italian edition of The claim of reason ; 19. Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke ; 20. Foreword to Qu'est-ce que la philosophie américaine?
Part III. Music. 21. An understanding with music ; 22. Kivy on Idomeneo ; 23. Philosophy and the unheard ; 24. Impressions of revolution ; 25. A scale of eternity
Appendix: Draft preface to Here and there.
