Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present

Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Chapter One. Urworte Goethisch: Demonic Primal Words......Page 38
Chapter Two. Demons of Morphology......Page 56
Chapter Three. Biographical Demons (Goethe’s Poetry and Truth)......Page 76
Chapter Four. The Unhappy Endings of Morphology: Oswald Spengler’s Demonic History......Page 104
Chapter Five. Demonic Ambivalences: Walter Benjamin’s Counter-Morphology......Page 128
Chapter Six. Georg Lukács and the Demonic Novel......Page 152
Chapter Seven. Demonic Inheritances: Heimito von Doderer’s The Demons......Page 178
Conclusion. Transformations of the Demonic......Page 210
Appendix: German Text and English Translation of Goethe’s “Urworte Orphisch” (with Commentary)......Page 218
Notes......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 256
Index......Page 266