Without Within turns to the figure of parenthesis to broach fresh lines of inquiry in Classical Reception Studies. Either as a rhetorical figure or a syntactic loophole, the parenthetic statement or inserted aside is somehow too marginal to be incorporated into the main discourse yet too important to eliminate. Although dismissible, it is not dismissed. With a primary focus on postwar Germany, after the Classical Tradition came to be severely compromised, Without Within consider a variety of parenthetic interventions where the past and the present occur as external components that are nonetheless internal, both outside and inside. Antiquity and Modernity are thus regarded as a part of each other by remaining apart from each other.