Zum Inhalt:

Part one

1 Sovereignty and the Vital Sphere

2 Of Kings and Other Cratures

3 Toward a Science of the Flesh

Part two

4 Was heißt Schauen? On the Vital Signs of Visual Modernism

5 The Stages of the Flesh: Shakespeare, Schmitt, Hofmannsthal

6 The Poet's Two Bodies: Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge