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INTRODUCTION: INAUGURATING REPETITION

1 INTERPRETING REFLECTIONS: PAINTING MIRRORS

2 SPACING AND DISTANCING

3 BETRAYING FACES: LUCIAN FREUD'S SELF-PORTRAITS

4 PRESENT REMEMBRANCE: ANSELM KIEFER'S ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY

5 KITAJ AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY

6 MALEVICH AND THE AVANT-GARDE

7 EISENMAN AND THE HOUSING OF TRADITION

8 PLURALISM, THE COSMOPOLITAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE

9 THE DECLINE OF ART: BENJAMIN'S AURA

10 TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN'S 'ON SOME MOTIFS IN BAUDELAIRE'

11 DESCARTES' FABLE: THE DISCOURSE DE LA METHODE

12 THE REDEMPTION OF VALUE: LAPORTE, WRITING AS ABKURZUNG

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