Roger Foste teaches philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York.

Acknowledgments and a Note on Translation
Introduction

1. The Consequences of Disenchantment

Disenchantment and Experience
Language and Expression
Selbstbesinnung (Self-Awareness)
Natural History and Suffering
The Limits of Language or How Is Spiritual Experience Possible?

2. Saying the Unsayable

Language and Disenchantment
Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Disenchantment
The Dissolution of Philosophy
Adorno on Saying the Unsayable

3. Adorno and Benjamin on Language as Expression

Benjamin on Showing and Saying
Benjamin on Language
Trauerspiel: Allegory and Constellation
Adorno and Philosophical Interpretation
Constellation and Natural History

4. Failed Outbreak I: Husserl

Introduction
The Husserlian Outbreak
Logical Absolutism
The Intuition of Essences
Self-Reflection and Natural History

5. Failed Outbreak II: Bergson

Spiritual Affinities
Memory and the Concept in Matter and Memory
Intuition: the External Demarcation of the Concept
Confinement as Habitude
The Internal Subversion of the Concept

6. Proust: Experience Regained

Introduction
The Depths of Experience
Involuntary Memory
Expression, Suffering, Allegory
Metaphor and Contradiction

7. A Contemporary Outbreak Attempt: John McDowell on Mind and World

Introduction
Disenchantment and Natural-Scientific Understanding
McDowell's Epistemological Antinomy
Second Nature
Domesticated Experience
McDowell and Adorno: Final Considerations

Conclusion

Critical Theory and ExperienceCommunication
Theory as an Outbreak Attempt

Notes
References
Index