Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreamble | ix
I. Memories of the Secret
Origins | 3
In the Crypt | 6
Etymology | 8
When the Secret Appears | 10
Occult Force | 14
II. The Secret’s Passions
Lifting the Veil | 19
The Unavowable | 22
A Treasure, a Poison | 25
Genesis | 27
Storia I | 29
III. Being or Having
The Last Secret | 39
The Body au secret | 41
Eroticism | 44
Storia II | 47
Storia III | 53
IV. Transparency and Truth
Violations | 59
Dissimulations | 63
Surveillances | 65
Adaptations | 67
Mirages | 69
Big Data, Hyperconnection, Speed: The Spiral | 72
Archives | 74
Secret Societies | 77
The Unifying Secret | 81
V. An Ethics of the Secret
Panopticum: Bentham, Kant, Constant | 85
Inappropriable | 88
Creative Power | 90
The Secret of Dreams | 92
Sex and Prayer | 95
Secret Sideration | 97
Jealousies | 102
The Conspiracy Theory | 105
VI. Toward Mystery
Secret Nature | 109
Veils | 111
Legacies | 114
Aside | 117
A Part of One’s Own | 123
Secret of the Prophetic Voice | 125
Sacrifice | 129
Mystery’s Share | 133
Notes | 139
Bibliography | 141
