Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Translation Introduction by Peter Fenves Part I 1. A Remark on Gundolf: Goethe 2. On a Lost Conclusion to the Note on the Symbolic in Cognition 3. Supplements To: On the Symbolic in Cognition 4. Early Romantic Theory of Art and Goethe 5. Life Built Up from the Elements 6. Purity and Rigor Are Categories of the Work 7. Notes toward a Work on the Idea of Beauty 8.

Categories of Aesthetics 9. On "Semblance 10. Beauty 11. Beauty and Semblance 12. Truth and Truths / Cognition and Cognitions 13. Theory of Art Critique 14. The More Powerfully the Expressionless Comes Forth in Poetry 15. The Sacramental Also Turns into the Mythic 16.

With Reference to Fran.ois-Poncet 17. Concerning Elective Affinities 18. Goethe's Elective Affinities Part II 19. Goethe 20. Goethe's Politics and View of Nature 21. Weimar 22. Two Dreams of Goethe's House 23.

Goethe's Theory of Colors 24. Against a Masterpiece: On Max Kommerell, The Poet as Fhrer in German Classicism 25. One Hundred Years of Writing on Goethe 26. Faust in the Sample Case 27. Books on Goethe--but Welcome Ones 28. New Literature about Goethe 29. Popularity as a Problem: On Hermann Schneider, Schiller's Work and Legacy 30. Letters about, to, and from Goethe 31.

Mythic Anxiety in Goethe 32. Two Notes from the Arcades Project Books by and about Goethe in "Registry of Readings Further Readings Guide to Names Glossary Notes Index of Goethe Citations (English-German Name Index Note on the Translators.