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1. Introduction: Proteus the Philosopher, Or, Reading Saramago as a Lover of Wisdom 2. Correcting History: Apocalypticism, Messianism and Saramago’s Philosophy of History 3. The “Dark Side” of History: Saramago, Foucault and Synchronic History 4. José Saramago’s “Magical” Historical Materialism 5. Some Remarks on a Phenomenological Interpretation of Saramago’s Cave 6. Death by Representation: In Law, in Literature, and in That Space Between 7. A Contemporary Midrash: Saramago’s Re-telling of the “Sacrifice of Isaac” 8. Female Representations in José Saramago: A Space for Oppositional Discourses from the Canonical Gospels to the Gospel According to Jesus Christ 9. Saramago’s Axiology of Gender Difference 10. Saramago’s Dogs: For an Inclusive Humanism 11. Traumatic Counterfactuals 12. Bye Bye Bartleby and Hello Seeing, or, On the Silence and the Actualization to Do… Not