Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth -- Chapter 2 Thinking Ethics across Neocolonial Borders: Borges, Ethical Theory, and the International Division of Intellectual Labor -- Chapter 3 Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida -- Chapter 4 Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia -- Afterword: Violence, Law, and Justice -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.