Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Haun Saussy
Introduction
Chapter 1. Christ’s Body versus Christ’s Image: The Iconoclasm of Epiphanius of Salamis
Chapter 2. Corpus Libri as Corpus Christi: Subversion, Alchemy, and the Poetics of Transubstantiation in the Book of the Holy Trinity
Chapter 3. The World as Christ and Representation, or Johann Caspar Lavater’s Practice of Redemptive Aesthetics
Chapter 4. Christ’s Vanishing Body in Dostoevsky’s Genealogy of Ethical Consciousness
Chapter 5. The Scene of Christ, or the Cinematic Body of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Chapter 6. A “Sacred Enterprise”: Christ’s Body in the Contemporary United States
Notes
Bibliography
Index