The Premodern Condition - Medievalism and the Making of Theory : Medievalism and the Making of Theory

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Avant-Garde Premodern 1(25) 1 Para-Thomism: Bataille at Rheims 26(31) 2 Apocalypse and Archaeophilia: Lacan's Middle Ages and the Ethics of History 57(37) 3 Indigeneity: Panofsky, Bourdieu, and the Archaeology of the Habitus 94(20) 4 Gothic Invention: Liturgy, History, Of Grammatology 114(38) 5 The Four Senses of Roland Barthes 152(43) Epilogue 195(9) Appendix I: Medieval French Literature, Chivalric Morals, and Passion 204(17) GEORGES BATAILLE Translated by Laurence Petit Appendix II: Postface to Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism 221(22) PIERRE BOURDIEU Translated by Laurence Petit Works Cited 243(20) Index 263