James Swearingen was Professor and Chair of several English Departments, including the University of South Alabama and Marquette University. Now retired, he and Dr Joanne Cutting-Gray live in Savannah, Georgia.

• Part I - An Other Beauty Introduction. 1. Feeling the Difference, Mario Perniola (University of Rome). 2. Breton's Post-Hegelian Modernism, Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania). 3. Postponing the Future: Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde, Dalia Judovitz (Emory University). 4. When Less is More, More or Less: Subtraction and Addition in (Post)Modernist Poetics, Peter Williams (University of Sydney). Part III - The Impossible Place of Literature. Introduction. 5. Chora and Character: Mimesis of Difference in Plato's Timaeus, Max Statkiewicz. (University of Wisconsin, Madison). 6. The Place of Boredom: Blanchot Not Reading Proust, Pierre Lamarche. 7. Literature, Film, and Virtuality: Technology's Cutting Edge, Joel Black (University of Georgia). Part IV - The Rhetoric of the Political Introduction. 8. Rhetoric, Politics, Romance: Arendt and Heidegger, 1924-26, Theodore Kisiel (Northern Illinois University). 9. Hannah Arendt: Literary Criticism and the Political, David Halliburton (Stanford University) 10. The Politics of Fascism, or Consuming the Flesh of the Other, Michael Clifford (Mississippi State University). Part V - The Political Imaginary. Introduction. 11. Post-Colonialism and History: Are we Responsible for the Past?, Moira Gatens (University of Sydney). 12. Indigenous-Becoming in the Post-Colonial Polity, Paul Patton (University of New South Wales). 13. The Post-Colonial Threshold of Capacity: "The Other! The Other!", Alfred Lopez (Florida International University). Part VI - Extreme Beauty - Death, Glory. Introduction. 14. The Simulacrum of Death: Perniola Beyond Heidegger and Metaphysics?, Robert Burch (University of Alberta, Edmonton). 15. A Deadly Gift: To Derrida, from Kierkegaard and Bataille, Kenneth Itzkowitz. (Marietta College, Ohio). 16. Glory in Levinas and Derrida, Bettina Bergo (Loyola College, Baltimore).