Sigrid Weigel (Author) Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).

• Note to the English-Language Edition viiList of Figures ixIntroduction: Toward a Grammatology of Images 11 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines 152 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement 433 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code 844 Effigiēs: Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness (Ebenbild) 1015 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature's Two Bodies 1186 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization 1707 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science 2028 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture 264Notes 275Bibliography 319Index 347

Sigrid Weigel (Author) Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).

• Note to the English-Language Edition viiList of Figures ixIntroduction: Toward a Grammatology of Images 11 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines 152 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement 433 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code 844 Effigiēs: Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness (Ebenbild) 1015 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature's Two Bodies 1186 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization 1707 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science 2028 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture 264Notes 275Bibliography 319Index 347

Sigrid Weigel (Author) Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).

• Note to the English-Language Edition viiList of Figures ixIntroduction: Toward a Grammatology of Images 11 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines 152 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement 433 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code 844 Effigiēs: Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness (Ebenbild) 1015 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature's Two Bodies 1186 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization 1707 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science 2028 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture 264Notes 275Bibliography 319Index 347