Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin * Politics of Indifference: Rene; Girard and Peter Sloterdijk * Mediated Invisibility: Michael Haneke * Apocalyptic Cosmologies: Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer * Melancholia Is Moot: Return to Freud * Impoverishment and Feminization: Friederike Mayröcker * Television’s Foreign Voices: Elfriede Jelinek * A Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq * The Quest for the Sacred: Giorgio Agamben