Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Redistributing the Senses
5. Intro 1
6. World of Prose 2
7. Distributing the Senses 5
8. We Have Never Been Deodorized 6
9. Emancipation, a Revolution of the Senses 10
10. Smell and the Expropriation of the “Sense of Having” 14
11. Tracking Down the Argument—In Medias Res 20
12. Chapter 1: Hölderlin’s Air
13. Introduction 23
14. Anthology: Reading, Hölderlin 24
15. The Aerial Sphere, Modulated 28
16. From Philosophy to Poetry, from Anschauung to Smell 32
17. Sinnlicher Lateness 37
18. A Geopoetics of Smell 41
19. The Smell of Lemons 44
20. Breathing the Future 50
21. Latestness: Tending toward Deodorization 61
22. Chapter 2: Baudelaire’s Perfumes
23. Introduction 69
24. Revolt, Baudelaire’s Dream 70
25. Perfumes: Poetry like Lazarus 74
26. A Woman’s Hemisphere 79
27. “Star without Atmosphere” 84
28. Addictive Time, Adorable Eternity 86
29. Revolutionary Anesthetic 92
30. Chapter 3: Nietzsche’s Chaos
31. Why I Have Such Flair (and Socrates Does Not) 95
32. Why I Have Such Flair (and Socrates Does Not) 98
33. Compromising Smell 101
34. Distance, Perspective, Chaos 103
35. New Smells 108
36. Smell of the Earth 110
37. Loyalty, Freedom 114
38. Smell of Eternity 117
39. Chapter 4: Brecht’s Stench
40. Introduction 125
41. The Body of the Revolution 128
42. “Virtual Revolutionaries” 133
43. Poetological Excursus: Against Aromatic Words 138
44. Hollywood Non Olet 140
45. Smelly Angels of History 144
46. The Glücksgott and His Students 147
47. Epilogue: Cleanup
48. Introduction 153
49. Poetry’s Common Place 154
50. From Pebble to Soap: The Character of Resistance 156
51. Vulgar Scent: Of Pilate 161
52. Purity Otherwise 162
53. Notes 165
54. Bibliography 211
55. Index 229