TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION
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Titles
Toward a Portrait of Thomas Mann
Bibliographical Musings
On an Imaginary Feuilleton
Morals and Criminality
The Curious Realist:On Siegfried Kracauer
Commitment
Presuppositions
Parataxis:On H61derlin’S Late Poetry
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On the Classicism of Goethes Iphigenie
On Dickens The OM Curiosity Shop
Charmed Language: On the Poetry of Rudolf Borchardt
The Handle, the Pot, and Early Experience
Introduction to Benjamins Schriften
Benjamin the Letter Writer
An Open Letter to Rolf Hochhuth
Is Art Lighthearted?
APPENDIX
Expressionism and Artistic Truthfulness: Toward a Critique of Recent Literature
Platz: On the Drama by Fritz von Unruh
Frank Wedekind and His Genre Painting, Musik
On the Legacy of Frank Wedekind
Physiological Romanticism
The Economic Crisis as Idyll
On the Use of Foreign Words
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NOTES
INDEX