Foreword by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman
Introduction
1. A Vessel to Navigate a Terrifying World: The Book of Hours
2. Echoes of the Absolute: The Book of Images
3. Rilke’s Visions, Part I
4. Rilke’s Visions, Part II
5. Decidedly Diesseits? The Diagonal in Arendt, Rilke and Kafka
Appendix: “On the Poet” (1912)
Biography
Nicholas Carroll Reynolds teaches German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University, USA. He also teaches Philosophy and International Studies, as well as a Study Abroad program in Berlin for Trinity’s Center for International Engagement. He specializes in the intersections of modern literature and philosophy, particularly in their ethical/intersubjective aspects and is the author of Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Prose Works.
