Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preliminary note xi
4. 1 Why is it happening to me? Guesswork concerning the animal that stumbles upon itself, that makes great plans, that often does not move from the spot, and that sometimes is fed up with everything 1
5. 2 Where do the monks go? On world-flight from an anthropological perspective 38
6. 3 What are drugs for? On the dialectic of world-flight and world-addiction 60
7. 4 How was the “ death drive” discovered? Toward a theory of the soul’s end goals with continual references to Socrates, Jesus, and Freud 85
8. 5 Is the world negatable? On Indian spirit and Occidental gnosis 115
9. 6 What does it mean to take oneself over? Experiment in affirmation 148
10. 7 Where are we when we listen to music? 164
11. 8 How do we stir the sleep of the world? Conjectures on awakening 183
12. Notes 215