Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Mass and Spirit 1
5. Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears 19
6. The Globe-shaped Tower: The Tower of Babel at the Turn of the Millennium 51
7. Belief in the Devil 67
8. Happiness and Melancholy 77
9. “For All but Fools Know Fear Sometimes”: Fear and Freedom 101
10. The Shadow of the Whole: The Romantic Fragment 123
11. “Only That Which Never Ceases to Hurt Stays in the Memory”: Variations on the Human Body, Subjugated by Fantasies of Power 145
12. Sleep and the Dream 171
13. A Natural Scientist in Reverse 183
14. Kleist Dies and Dies and Dies 193
15. The Fatal Theater of Antonin Artaud 219
16. A Capacity for Amazement: Canetti’s Crowds and Power Fifty Years Later 247
17. Notes 269
18. Credit 283