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.
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"Examines the philosophic-historical conditions of literary theory"-- Provided by publisher.
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