"My Belief"
ISBN 0 224 01259 2
Table of Contents
Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski - ix
PART ONE / ESSAYS, 1904 - 1961
- At Year's End (1904) - 3
- On Little Joys (1905) - 7
- Letter to a Young Poet (1910) - 11
- Old Music (1913) - 15
- Letter to a Philistine (1915) - 20
- Language (1917) - 26
- The Refuge (1917) - 32
- Concerning the Soul (1917) - 37
- Artists and Psychoanalysis (1918) - 46
- From My Diary (1918) - 52
- Fantasies (1918) - 59
- On Poems (1918) - 65
- The Brothers Karamazov, or The Decline of Europe (1919) - 70
- Thoughts on The Idiot by Dostoevsky (1919) - 86
- Books on Trial (1919) - 93
- Variations on a Theme by Wilhelm Schäfer (1919) - 96
- On Reading Books (1920) - 101
- A Poet's Preface to His Selected Works (1921) - 108
- About Jean Paul (1921) - 113
- Exotic Art (1922) - 123
- On Hölderlin (1924) - 126
- Postscript to Novalis, Documents on His Life and Death (1924)
- 130
- About Dostoevsky (1925) - 133
- Our Age's Yearning for a Philosophy of Life (1926-1927) - 136
- A Night's Work (1928) - 142
- A Virtuoso's Concert (1929) - 147
- The Magic of the Book (1930) - 153
- About Good and Bad Critics (1930) - 163
- My Belief (1931) - 177
- Gratitude to Goethe (1932) - 181
- A Bit of Theology (1932) - 189
- On Reading a Novel (1933) - 202
- From a Diary (1933) - 207
- Memories of Klingsor's Summer (1938) - 212
- Postscript to Steppenwolf (1941) - 215
- Favorite Reading (1945) - 217
- The Peach Tree (1945) - 221
- Dream Gift (1946) - 225
- Description of a Landscape (1947)
- Mysteries (1947) - 241
- The Omitted Words (1948) - 254
- Happiness (1949) - 258
- On Old Age (1952) - 269
- Interpreting Kafka (1956) - 272
- Anti-Semitism (1922, 1958) - 275
- Joseph Knecht to Carlo Ferromonte (1961) - 278
PART TWO
I. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Caesarius of Heisterbach (1908) - 287
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1904) - 294
- Casanova (1925) - 305
- Hans Christian Andersen (1910) - 310
- Walt Whitman (1904) - 312
- August Strindberg (1909, 1949) - 314
- Selma Lagerlöf (1908) - 317
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1900) - 324
- Romain Rolland (1922, 1915) - 329
- André Gide (1951, 1933) - 334
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1928, 1927, 1933) - 337
- D.H. Lawrence (1933, 1934, 1930) - 343
- Thomas Wolfe (1933) - 346
- J.D. Salinger (1953) - 350
II. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Sigmund Freud (1925, 1919) - 355
- C.G. Jung (1931, 1934) - 358
- Jacob Burckhardt (1935) - 361
- Karl Marx (1932) - 363
- Henri Bergson (1916) - 364
- Count Hermann Keyserling (1920) - 366
- Oswald Spengler (1924) - 370
- José Ortega y Gasset (1931, 1932) - 371
- Leopold Ziegler (1936) - 373
III. ORIENTAL HISTORY
- Introduction (1929) - 377
- Hinduism (1923) - 379
- The Speeches of Buddha (1921, 1922) - 381
- Chinese Literature (1911, 1926, 1914, 1922, 1929, 1925) - 385
- View of the Far East (1959) - 392
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