Contents

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Part I

• 1. The Speaking Gaze of Modernity

• 2. Intuition and Language

• Excursus

• Methods of Reading

• Part II

• 3. Aestheticism, Romanticism, and the Body of Language

• 4. Hofmannsthal and the Voice of Language

• 5. Rilke’s Stereoscopic Vision

• 6. Other as Same: The Politics of the George Circle

• Notes

• Works Cited

• Index