Exemplarity and Singularity

Michèle Lowrie is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago; Susanne Lüdemann is Professor of Languages and Literatures at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich;

1. Introduction: Michèle Lowrie and Susanne Lüdemann, I. The Practice of Theory: A Historical Reminder, 2. Hans Lipps, Instance, Example, Case, and the Relationship of the Legal Case to the Law, 3. Bernhard Waldenfels, For Example, 4. Anselm Haverkamp, Equivalence Unbalanced – Metaphor, Case, and Example – from Aristotle to Derrida, 5. Eva Geulen, Without Example: Adorno, II. The Roman Practice of Exemplarity, 6. Rebecca Langlands, Roman Exemplarity: Mediating between General and Particular, 7. Matthew Roller, Between Unique and Typical: Senecan Exempla in a List, 8. Melanie Möller, Exemplum and Exceptio: Building Blocks for a Rhetorical Theory of the Exceptional Case, 9. Clifford Ando, Exemplum, Analogy, and Precedent in Roman Law, 10. John P. McCormick, Machiavelli’s Agathocles: From Criminal Example to Princely Exemplum, III. Exemplarity / Singularity, 11. Peter Goodrich, The Exampleless Example: Of the Infinite Particularities of Early Modern Common Law, 12. Christiane Frey, Bacon’s Bee: the Physiognomy of the Singular, 13. David Martyn, The Temper of Exemplarity: Werther’s Horse, 14. Robert Morrissey, Stendhal: Julien Sorel in the Footsteps of Napoleon, 15. Paul Fleming, Beside Oneself: Parapraxis as a Paradigm of Everyday Life (Freud)