Acknowledgments p. ix
Introduction p. xi
1 Rilke's Duino Elegies Hannah Arendt and Gunther Stern p. 1
2 The Emergence of the German Principle of "Bildung" Hans Weil p. 24
3 Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th Anniversary of His Death, June 9, 1932 p. 31
4 Renaissance? Adam Muller p. 38
5 Berlin Salon p. 46
6 Rilke's Revisions Hans Hagen p. 54
7 Thomas Mann and Romanticism Kate Hamburger p. 56
8 Jews in the World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig p. 58
9 A Hidden Tradition The Jew as Pariah p. 69
10 Nightmare and Flight p. 91
11 Appreciated Anew Franz Kafka p. 94
12 Great Friend of Reality Adalbert Stifter p. 110
13 French Existentialism p. 115
14 No Longer and Nor Yet p. 121
15 Proof Positive p. 126
16 The Streets of Berlin p. 128
17 The Too Ambitious Reporter p. 130
18 Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht p. 133
19 Job's Dungheap Bernard Lazare p. 143
20 The Achievement of Hermann Broch p. 148
21 Between Vice and Crime (On Proust) p. 156
22 The Imperialist Character (On Kipling) p. 167
23 The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art p. 172
24 Culture and Politics p. 179
25 Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's Exhibition Catalog p. 203
26 The Social Question (On Melville and Dostoevski) p. 206
27 The Golden Fruits Nathalie Sarraute p. 214
28 What Is Permitted to Jove...: Reflections on the Poet Bertolt Brecht and His Relation to Politics p. 223
29 Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 p. 257
30 Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 p. 262
31 Notes on Dostoevsky's Possessed p. 275
32 Emerson Address p. 282
33 No Donkey Has Lost Me While Galloping Robert Gilbert p. 285
34 Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 p. 294
Editorial Note: Texts in German and English p. 303
Notes p. 305
Index p. 351