Pt. 1. Spectral history of guilt in Law
1. Modernity's guilt by default
2. The spectre of Roman law
3. Spectral violence in justifying law
Pt. 2. Historical truth of spectrality
1. Freud's Moses and the progress of spectrality
2. Foreclosure and the return of the pharaoh
3. For a Freudian model of history
Pt. 3. Spectrality in the Christian and tragic era
1. Ghostly transfigurations in Christianity
2. Spectral performance of Greek tragedy
Pt. 4. Phantom formations after the Renaissance
1. Shakespeare's stage ghost
2. From the evil demon to Cartesian certitude
3. Epic resources of Pandemonium
IV. Conversion into capital : return on investment.
On spectrality : fantasies of redemption in the Western canon by David Ratmoko. ISBN 0820481300. Published by P. Lang in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.