From the Book - First American edition.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I ARRIVAL --
1. `A happy event': Summer 1794: Goethe and Schiller --
2. `I am a priest of truth': Summer 1794: Fichte's Ich-philosophy --
3. `The nation's finest minds': Winter 1794 -- Spring 1795: Where All Paths Lead --
4. `Electrified by our intellectual friction': 1795 -- 1796: Love, Life and Literature --
5. `Philosophy is originally a feeling': Summer 1796: Novalis in Love --
6. `Our splendid circle': Summer -- Winter 1796: The Schlegels Arrive --
7. `Our little academy': Spring 1797: Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt --
8. `Grasp, then, a handful of darkness': Summer -- Winter 1797: Novalis's Death Wish --
9. `Sublime impertinence': Winter 1797 -- Spring 1798: The Dawn of Romanticism --
10. `Symphilosophy is our connection's true name': Summer 1798: A Vacation in Dresden and Schelling Arrives --
11. `To be one with everything living': Autumn 1798 -- Spring 1799: Schelling's Naturphilosophie --
12. `Idol worshippers, atheists, liars': 1799: Scandals Part One. Fichte's Dismissal --
13. `You lose yourself in a dizzy whirl': 1799: Scandals Part Two. Divorce, Women and Sex --
14. `The Schlegel clique': Autumn 1799: Work and Play --
15. `Solemnly calling a new confederation of minds': November 1799: A Meeting in Leutragasse --
16. `The republic of despots': Winter 1799 -- Summer 1800: Estrangements --
17. `O what a black fog': Summer 1800 -- Spring 1801: Darkness Falls --
18. `When philosophers start eating one another like starving rats': Spring 1801 -- Spring 1803: Separations --
19. `The current exodus': 1804 -- 1805: Jena Abandoned --
20. `The French are in town!': October 1806: The Battle of Jena.
