The World of Perversion -- Contents -- 1. Epistemologies of Perversion -- Perversity and Perversion -- Perversion as Power -- Perversion as Structure -- Fetishism, Sexual Difference, Homosexuality -- Worlds of Perversion: A Reader's Guide -- 2. Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite -- Meet Gilles de Rais -- The Spectacle of Perversion -- The Tragedy of History -- An Innocent Transference -- Radically Evil? -- The Perverse Sacrifice -- 3. Cleopatra's Nose -- Pascal's Modernity -- The Tragic Absolute -- From Sin to Infinity -- Ideological State Automatons -- A Distracted Dialectic -- Grace, or the Act of Faith -- 4. This Whole World of Perversion -- Dialogue and Dialectic -- The Cynical Other -- A Revolt against the Negative -- Wealth and Power -- Hysterical Pantomime -- The Beyond of Perversion -- 5. The Guardian of Criminal Being -- Lacan contra Hegel -- Ethical Beauty -- The Real of Destiny -- Pleasure Unbound -- Suffering for Beauty -- Artfully Screwed -- 6. Concluding (Un)Queer-Theoretical Postscript -- Perversion and Its Discontents -- A Dynamic Perversion -- The Minoritarian Temptation -- Hysteria in the Shadow of the State -- The Paradox of Desublimation -- The Subject of Sex -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.