Contents
Preface: The Art of Self-Dispossession
Introduction: The Fallacy of Self-Possession
1. The Sunset of the Self
2. Renunciation and Refusal = Rupture and Rapture
3. Elide Tragedy
4. The Comic Self Is Not Comic
5. “I Think”
6. David Hume: The Master Critic of Identity
7. Temporality contra Cogito Ergo Sum
8. From a Terminal Walk to a Tightrope Walker
9. Don Quijote’s Comic Selves
10. The Unequal
11. Tragic Repetition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index