
Preexisting Conditions
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- Contents
- Preface. The End of the World as We Knew It
- I. The Local and the General
- II. Monotheological Antecedents: Life against the Living (Genesis, Exodus)
- III. Polytheistic Antecedents: The Plague as Stasis (Thucydides)
- IV. Storytelling as Friction (Boccaccio, The Decameron)
- V. The Lutheran Response: The Neighbor (Luther, "Should a Christian Flee the Plague?")
- VI. "Out of all Measures" (Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year)
- VII. Tragedy as Trauerspiel (Kleist, The Tragedy of Robert Guiscard, Duke of the Normans)
- VIII. Preexisting Conditions (Artaud, "The Theater and the Plague")
- IX. Confinement (Camus, The Plague)
- X. Living with Plagues (Hölderlin, "Remarks on Sophocles's Oedipus")
- Notes
- Index
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