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Translators' Foreword ix Editor's Preface 5(10) PART I: PROFESSOR KONRAD RUTKOWSKI'S LETTERS Letter 1 Why Professor Konrad Rutkowski Vacationed in the Town of D., or Meditations 15(10) Letter 2 Parallel Travels, or Matter and Memory 25(8) Letter 3 SS Standartenführer Heinrich Steinbrecher, or Thus Spake Zarathustra 33(10) Letter 4 How Steinbrecher Spoke, or Principles of Nature and Grace 43(9) Letter 5 How Steinbrecher Spoke, or A Discourse on Method 52(12) Letter 6 A Dinner in the Mausoleum, or Introduction to Psychoanalysis 64(11) Letter 7 An Inherited Captive, or The World as Will and Imagination 75(15) Letter 8 A Granite Legend, or The Meaning of History 90(11) Letter 9 The Second Life of Adam Trpkovic, or The Phenomenology of the Spirit 101(14) Letter 10 The Municipal File Clerk in Person, or Ecce Homo 115(13) Letter 11 Gustav Fröhlich, the Spy from Mannheim, or Essays on Human Reason 128(14) Letter 12 The Worldview of SS Standartenführer Heinrich Steinbrecher, or The Decline of the West 142(10) Letter 13 Professor Konrad Rutkowski Declares War on Fascism, or Phaedon; or, Of the Soul 152(13) Letter 14 The Wicked Biography and Malefactions of a Men's Umbrella, or Logical Investigations 165(10) Letter 15 How Adam Trpkovic Got into Bed with Miss Lilly Schwartzkopf, or Praise of Folly 175(9) Letter 16 Steinbrecher's Gambit, or The Apology 184(13) Letter 17 A Demonstration That There Are No Minor Compromises, or A Debate on Human Nature 197(15) Letter 18 Satan's Emissary, or Sic et Non 212(10) Letter 19 Golgotha in D., or Reason and Existence 222(17) Letter 20 Right and Left, or Being and Time 239(9) Letter 21 Death and Transfiguration, or Being and Nothingness 248(12) Letter 22 The Unusual Illness of Professor Rutkowski, or Creative Evolution 260(16) Letter 23 A Magical Recovery, or Civitates dei 276(10) Letter 24 The First Crusade against the Umbrella, or The Rebellious Man 286(10) Letter 25 The Rope and the Stool, or The Poverty of Philosophy 296(9) Letter 26 How Professor Rutkowski Sold His Soul to the Devil, or Beyond Good and Evil 305(16) PART II: PROFESSOR KONRAD RUTKOWSKI'S POSTSCRIPTS Postscript 1 The Transcript of the Interrogation of Gustav Frohlich 321(29) Postscript 2 Professor Konrad Rutkowski's Secret Testament, or Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 350(19) PART III: EDITOR'S NOTES 369(40) Glossary of Selected Terms and Abbreviations 409