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Table of Contents

Preamble | 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

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823289233
      978-0823289233
      ISBN-10 0823289230
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Structuralism and Post-structuralism Not Just Books Stationery

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preamble | 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

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