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Religion Without A History. The Tour Guide's Version ; The Games Of The Century ; An Eloquent Man Who Loved His Country ; What Is A God? ; Divine Butchery ; Ways Of Knowing ; The Specter Of Atheism ; Gods At Home ; Divine Exaltation -- The History Of Paganism. Constantine In His World ; A New Leaf ; The Birth Of Paganism ; The Baptism Of Paganism ; The First Christian Emperor ; The Servant Of Christianity ; The Triumph Of Paganism ; What Remained ; Cicero Reborn ; A Roman Religion. James J. O'donnell. 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Deconstruction And The Limits To Interpretation -- The Temptation Of New Perspectives \/ Stephen Melville -- The Origin Of The Work Of Art \/ Martin Heidegger -- The Still Life As A Personal Object : A Note On Heidegger And Van Gogh \/ Meyer Schapiro -- Restitutions Of The Truth In Pointing [pointure] \/ Jacques Derrida -- 7. Authorship And Identity -- What Is An Author? \/ Michel Foucault -- The Discourse Of Others : Feminists And Postmodernism \/ Craig Owens -- Re-viewing Modernist Criticism \/ Mary Kelly -- Performative Acts And Gender Constitution : An Essay In Phenomenology And Feminist Theory \/ Judith Butler -- Postmodern Automatons \/ Rey Chow -- 'every Man Knows Where And How Beauty Gives Him Pleasure' : Beauty Discourse And The Logic Of Aesthetics \/ Amelia Jones -- Queer Wallpaper \/ Jennifer Doyle -- 8. 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