Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Translations, Page References, and General Sources xiii
5. Introduction: The Feeling of the Form 1
6. 1. The Materialist Unconscious: Necromantic Empathy in Robert Vischer and Georg Büchner 52
7. 2. Adalbert Stifter: Resistances of Form and Feeling 125
8. 3. Bad Metaphors: Catachresis and Coercion in Rainer Maria Rilke 217
9. Coda: The Afterlives of Einfühlung 286
10. Works Cited 297
11. Index 315