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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface: A Personal Note
1 Don’t Follow the Poets!: The Quran and Poetry
Notes
2 Revolt against God: Attar and Suffering
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3 World without God: Shakespeare and Man
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4 Heroic Weakness: Lessing and Terror
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5 God Breathing: Goethe and Religion
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6 Filth of My Soul: Kleist and Love
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7 The Truth of Theatre: The Shiite Passion Play and Alienation
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8 Liberate Bayreuth!: Wagner and Empathy
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9 Swimming in the Afternoon: Kafka and Germany
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10 The Duty of Literature: Hedayat and Kafka
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11 Towards Europe: Zweig and the Borders
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12 In Defence of the Glass Bead Game: Hesse and Decadence
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13 The Violence of Compassion: Arendt and Revolution
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14 Tilting at Windmills: Mosebach and the Novel
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15 One God, One Wife, One Cheese: Golshiri and Friendship
16 Sing the Quran Singingly: Neuwirth and Literalist Piety
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Appendix
On the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution: Speech to the Bundestag, Berlin, 23 May 2014
On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association: Speech in St Paul’s Church, Frankfurt am Main, 18 October 2015
About the Text
1 Don’t Follow the Poets!
2 Revolt against God
3 World without God
4 Heroic Weakness
5 God Breathing
6 Filth of My Soul
7 The Truth of Theatre
8 Liberate Bayreuth!
9 Swimming in the Afternoon
10 The Duty of Literature
11 Towards Europe
12 In Defence of the Glass Bead Game
13 The Violence of Compassion
14 Tilting at Windmills
15 One God, One Wife, One Cheese
16 Sing the Quran Singingly
On the Sixty-Fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution
On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association
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