Chapter 1 Introduction: Proteus the Philosopher, or Reading Saramago as a Lover of Wisdom

Chapter 3 The “Dark Side” of History: Saramago, Foucault, and Synchronic History

Chapter 4 José Saramago’s “Magical” Historical Materialism

Chapter 5 Some Remarks on a Phenomenological Interpretation of Saramago’s Cave

Chapter 6 Death by Representation: In Law, in Literature, and in That Space Between

Chapter 7 A Contemporary Midrash: Saramago’s Re-telling of the “Sacrifice of Isaac”

Chapter 8 Female Representations in José Saramago: A Space for Oppositional Discourses from the Canonical Gospels to The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Chapter 9 Saramago’s Axiology of Gender Difference

Chapter 10 Saramago’s Dogs: For an Inclusive Humanism

Chapter 11 Traumatic Counterfactuals

Chapter 12 Bye Bye Bartleby and Hello Seeing, or On the Silence and the Actualization to Do … Not