Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- From, Event -- Philosophy's Dice -- Disciplinary Action -- Historiography and Event -- Traumatic Event -- Politics, Ethics and the Event -- Literature's Answer -- What Is (a) Literary Event? -- I.3.b What Become of Language? -- I.3.c How Can the Literary Event Be Read? -- I.3.d What Is at Stake With the Literary Event? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section I Senses -- 1 Plasticity and the Event of Literature: Reading Catherine Malabou With Anne Carson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Margin, Letter, and Sentence: The Graphic Event -- Margin: Barthes' Twombly -- Letter: Twombly With Dickinson -- Sentence: Pure Syntax -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Unexceptional Events -- Or, Cixous's Scarcely Audible Literature -- Cixous's Genius -- The Unexceptional -- Almost Silent Homonymy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 'Peut-Être Aurais-Je Dû Penser': Research and Event in Proust -- Socrates' Leisure and the Vocation of the Philosopher -- The Event of Research -- 'Peut-être Aurais-Je Dû Penser' -- Research and Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section II Possibility/Impossibility -- 5 Poetics of the Event Or Evental Poetics?: Writing as Becoming Imperceptible in Howard Barker's Hurts Given and Received -- The Phantasm of Revolutionary Writing -- Bach's Evental Poetics: Hurts Given and Received -- Evental Poetics and the Aporias of Pain and the Other -- Poetic Event, Intimacy, and Infection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Literature, Event, and Formal Compossibility -- Totality and Commensurability -- Multiplicity and Compossibility -- Judgment and the Count -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Withness of the Earth: Haptic Epistemology in Climatic Times -- Apocalypse Now -- The Wit(h)ness of the Body.