Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University and director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is author of twelve books, including, most recently, Benjamin’s -abilities and, in French, Inquiétantes singularités. He is a founding editor of the Electronic Mediations series at the University of Minnesota Press.

Contents

Prefatory Note: Resisting—the Singular

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Singularity: An Aporetical Concept

1. Singularity, Individuality: From Anxiety to Anger

2. On the Militarization of Feeling

3. Bare Life and Life in General: The Question of “Concentration”

4. Psychoanalysis and the Mediacy of the Media

5. Protection, Projection, Persecution

6. The Single Trait

7. Money Is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis

8. Global Inequality: The Question of Birthright

9. Mind the Cap: A Singular Approach to Europe

10. West of Eden: After the Good Life

11. After Its Kind: The Biblical Origins of Economic Theology

12. Like—Come Again?! On Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence

13. The Future of Saussure: A Signifying Moment

14. Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, and the Uncanny

15. The Singularity of Literary Cognition

16. Mis-taking the Measure of Poetry: Hölderlin Asks, Heidegger Answers

17. Towers and Walls: Building the Wall of China

18. Kafka’s Josefine, or How a Phrase Can Turn Out

19. Silencing the Sirens

Notes

Index