Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: 'Not Truth in History, But History in Truth' 1 The Opus Against the Apparatus 2 The Aesthetic Equation and Its Antinomy 3 Antinomic of Form: The Birth of Art's Double Character 4 The Special Problematic: What is an Aesthetic Antinomy? 5 The General Problematic: Structure Faces History 6 A Note on Kleist's Novella1 The Antinomic Act of Literature in Michael Kohlhaas 1 Prologue: The Desire of Michael Kohlhaas 2 Kohlhaas Follows His Thing: A Failed Forensics 3 Luther Stops Kohlhaas: On the Historical Plateau 4 The Gypsy Woman Moves Kohlhaas: A Fantastic Tragedy 5 Kohlhaas Following Kohlhaas: What is a Literary Act?2 The Human Antinomy in Hegel's Philosophy of Right 1 Introduction 2 The Human Antinomy and Its Personal Resolution 3 The Form of the Person: Infinite Self-Relation 4 The Personal Antinomy and Its Political Resolution3 The Political Antinomy in Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 1 Introduction 2 The Constituted Form: The Proclaimed Republic 3 The Constituent Content: The Presuppositions of the Republic 4 The Antinomy of the Republic: The Politics of Capital 5 The Resolution to Come4 Figuring the Answer: A Reconstruction of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 1 Problematic. Art's Double Character as Antinomy 2 Analytic of the Autonomous: Form as Separation 3 Analytic of the Social: Form as Repetition 4 Dialectic. The Sublime and The Ridiculous: Form as Participation 5 Conclusion Bibliography Index.