5 East Meets West: Zen and Rilke in Salinger’s Catcher

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Overview 1
5. Figure: What Is German Romanticism (noch einmal), or The Limits of Scholarship 19
6. Merton’s “Rilke,” Rilke’s “Merton”: From an Unpublished Notebook 37
7. Killing Kafka Koans: West Meets East 75
8. Interface: Identity/Difference/Prestidigitation 95
9. East Meets West: Zen and Rilke in Salinger’s Catcher 117
10. Without an Object, without a Subject: The Consciousness of Franklin Merrell-Wolff 133
11. Ground: German Romanticism, Zen, and Deconstruction 165
12. Appendix 177
13. Notes 181
14. Works Cited 203
15. Index 213