Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. 1. Rilke’s Duino Elegies (by Hannah Arendt and Günther Stern) 1
6. 2. Review of Hans Weil, The Emergence of the German Principle of “Bildung” 24
7. 3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, June 9, 1932 31
8. 4. Adam Müller—Renaissance? 38
9. 5. Berlin Salon 46
10. 6 Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke’s Revisions 54
11. 8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in t he World of Yesterday 58
12. 9. The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition 69
13. 10. Nightmare and Flight 91
14. 11. Franz Kafka, Appreciated Anew 94
15. 12. Great Friend of Reality: Adalbert Stifter 110
16. 13. French Existentialism 115
17. 14. No Longer and Not Yet 121
18. 15. Proof Positive 126
19. 16. The Streets of Berlin 128
20. 17. The Too Ambitious Reporter 130
21. 18. Beyond Personal Frustration 133
22. 19. Preface to Bernard Lazare, Job’s Dungheap 143
23. 20. The Achievement of Hermann Broch 148
24. 21. Between Vice and Crime (On Proust) 156
25. 22. The Imperialist Character (On Kipling) 167
26. 23. The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art 172
27. 24. Culture and Politics 179
28. 25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich’s Exhibition Catalog 203
29. 26. The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski) 206
30. 27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits 214
31. 28. What Is Permitted to Jove...: Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and His Relation to Politics 223
32. 29. Randall Jarrell, 1914–1965 257
33. 30. Isak Dinesen, 1885–1962 262
34. 31. Notes on Dostoevsky’s Possessed 275
35. 32. Emerson Address 282
36. 33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galloping 285
37. 34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 294
38. Editorial Note: Texts in German and English 303
39. Notes 305
40. Index 351
41. Crossing Aesthetics 361