Andrew W. Hass 
Auden’s O [EPUB ebook] 
The Loss of One’s Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing

Acknowledgments

Epicycle
‘Nothing will come of nothing’
Falsetto
Auden’s Circumlocution

0. Introduction

Giotto’s O
The Binary
The Binary Code
The Binary Code Cracked
The Paradigm
The Paradigm Shift
The Paradigm Rift
The Modern
The Modern Crisis

Part One: From Religion and Philosophy to Artiface

1.  The Sovereignty of One

One’s Punch Line
From the Many, One: The Hebrews
The Nature of One: The Presocratics
The Metaphysics of One: Plato, Aristotle
The Wholly, Plenary One: Plotinus
The Christian One: Paul
The Paradigms of One
One’s Retreat
2. The Revolutions of O

The Romeo Effect
Zero and its History
Ground Zero
Mirror/Speculum/Eye
The Artificer’s Circle
The Hermeneutical Circle
I The Author’s O
Eternal Recurrence

Part Two: Poesis’ Figure — The Making of O

3. Shakespeare’s Eye of the Storm

Lear’s Tragic O
Shakespeare’s Specular O
Caliban’s Negating O

4. Reflections of Auden

W. H. Auden
The Sea and the Mirror

5. The Empty Middle

Originating O (Blanchot)
Historicizing O
Alternate Os of the Middle
The O of Auden
The Erotics of O
Simone de Beauvoir

Part III: Looking After O

6. The Remaking of Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy and Religion: Inside the Perimeter
Negation’s Triumvirate: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger
Before the Postmodern: Sartre
Through the Postmodern: Derrida, Irigaray
Out of the Postmodern: Badiou
g Od—Postmortem Theology

7. The Future of O?

Auden’s Brecht
The Parabolic Within
Pontius Pilate in the Creed
The Other Rogue
The Rogue Within

Another Epicycle
The Truest O is the Most Feigning
‘Signifying Nothing’

Notes
Bibliography of Cited Works
Index

Andrew W. Hass is Reader in Critical Religion at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He is the author of Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality and the coeditor (with David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay) of The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology.