Acknowledgments Introduction: Some Fundamental Problems in Contemporary Literary Theory Part One: Canons as a Theoretical Issue 1. An Idea and Ideal of Literary Canon 2. Canons and Differences 3. Going On and Going Nowhere: Wittgenstein and the Question of Criteria in Literary Criticism Part Two: Canonical Exemplars and Contemporary Values 4. Finnegans Wake as Modernist Historiography 5. Wordsworth's Poetics of Eloquence: A Challenge to Contemporary Theory 6. Plato's Performative Sublime and the Ends of Reading Part Three: Some Ethical Consequences for Aesthetic Idealism 7. Reconstituting Subjects 8.

From Expressivist Aesthetics to Expressivist Ethics 9. Judgment and Justice Under Postmodern Conditions: Or How Lyotard Helps Us Read Rawls as a Postmodern Thinker 10. Life After Difference: The Positions of the Interpreter and the Positionings of the Interpreted Notes Bibliography Index.