Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account -- INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place -- 1. Referent and Annihilation: ''X'' Marks the Spot -- 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- 3. ''Sovereignty'' over Language: Of Lice and Men -- 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ''X'' -- PART I. Goethe's Timelessness -- 1. Faust's Building: Theory as Practice -- 2. Faust's and Heidegger's Technology: Building as Poiesis -- 3. In the Place of Language -- 4. ''Time Refound'' -- PART II. Built Time -- 1. Building, Story, and Image -- 2. Benjamin's and Goethe's Passagen: Ottilie under Glass -- 3. Nature in Pieces -- 4. ''Superfluous Stones'' -- 5. ''Stones for Thought'' -- 6. Kant's and Goethe's Schatzkammer: Buried Time -- AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent -- Appendix. Continuation of Notes -- Bibliography