Some theoretical and historical complications in Hegel's aesthetics of comedy / Stanley Corngold -- The double detour : Satre, Heidegger, and the genealogy of deconstruction / Tilottama Rajan -- The premodern condition : neo-primitivism in Baudrillard and Lyotard / Victor Li -- The sublime between history and theory : Hegel, de Man, and beyond / Ian Balfour