Adorno -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Theory of Spiritual Experience -- 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 Benjaminon 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 EXPERIENCE -- COMMUNICATION THEORY AS AN OUTBREAK ATTEMPT -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.