From the Book - First Vintage International edition.
pt. 2. Metaphysical rebellion
Absolute negation : A man of letters ; The dandies' rebellion
The rejection of salvation
Absolute affirmation : The unique ; Nietzsche and nihilism
The poets' rebellion : Lautremont and banality
Surrealism and revolution
pt. 3. Historical rebellion
The execution of the king
Individual terrorism : The renunciation of virtue ; Three of the possessed ; The fastidious assassins ; The path of Chigalev
State terrorism and irrational terror
State terrorism and rational terror : The bourgeois prophecy ; The revolutionary prophecy ; The failing of the prophecy ; The kingdom of ends ; Totality and trials
Rebellion and revolution.
pt. 5. Thought at the meridian
Rebellion and murder : Nihilistic murder ; Historical murder
Moderation and excess : Thought at the meridian
