Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Exoticism: Model for Inspiration or Alibi for Despair?
1. The Dynamics of Exoticism: Herder's Epigram and Gunderrode's Epitaph
2. Rationalist Heroes and Irrational Victims: Satis, Bayaderas, and Pariahs
Part II: The Politics of Language and the Politics of Exoticism
Introduction
3. The Politics of Exoticism: Friedrich Schlegel's Metaphorical Pilgrimage to India
4. Scholarly Collusion and the Ethos of Despair: The Initial Reception of the Bhagavad Gita
Part III: The Poetics of Despair: Irrational Responses to Exoticism
Introduction
5. The German Quest for Nirvana
6. Neantisme
7. Indian Thought and the Formation of Aryan Ideology: Aryans, Tschandalen, and the Lunatic Fringe
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Index