Acknowledgments
Introduction: Principally Unprincipled; or, Speaking of "Beginnings"
1. "Self" -Citations in Husserl and Augustine
2. Provocations: "I," Husserl, and the Passive Voices of Phenomenology
3. Parsing Pairing: George Bataille and the Scripts of Subjectivity
4. Writing Out of Sight: On the Papers and Traces of Kafka
5. Passive Voices: Echoes, Blanchot
Postscript
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Kristina Mendico is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty, also published by SUNY Press, and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism.