STRUCTURE AND GESTALT Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and her successor states -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- STRUCTURE AND GESTALT -- Table of contents -- ON THE POETRY AND THE PLURIFUNCTIONALITY OF LANGUAGE -- 1.Introduction -- 2. From Bühler's three-function schema to Jakobson's six -- 3. From formalism to structuralism - from the separation of the work of art to the autonomy of the aesthetic function -- 4. Multi- versus monofunctionalism -- 5. On the plurifunctionality of the poetic text -- 6. On the plurifunctionality of the poetic device -- ALOIS RIEGL: THE SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS OF STYLISTIC TYPES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dutch Kunstwollen -- 3. The typology of styles -- 4. The symbolic type -- 5. The genre-like type -- 6. The dramatic type -- 7. Conclusion -- BOLZANO AND THE DARK DOCTRINE: AN ESSAY IN AESTHETICS -- 1. Kant and the subjectivisation of aesthetics -- 2. Bolzano and the theory of the beautiful -- 3. Appraising Bolzano's aesthetics -- KAFKA AND BRENTANO: A STUDY IN DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence of inner perception -- 3. The représentation of the self -- 4. On our knowledge of right and wrong -- 5. The inner tribunal -- BRENTANO AND FREUD -- 1. Introduction -- 2.Brentano's views on psychology -- 3. Freud's views on psychology -- 4. Brentano 's views on ethics -- 5. Freud's views on ethics -- 6. A comparison of Brentano and Freud on ethics -- THE OPTIMUM VELOCITY OF APPROACH: SOME REFLECTIONS ON KAFKA'S TRIAL -- THE PRODUCTION OF IDEAS: NOTES ON AUSTRIAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM BOLZANO TO WITTGENSTEIN -- 1. The internal front -- 2. Bernard Bolzano : Logic and the theory of science -- 3. On nationalities of a higher order -- 4. The movement of human capital.

PHILOSOPHY AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY, 1848-1918: A COMPARATIVE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL SKETCH -- THERAPEUTIC NIHILISM: HOW NOT TO WRITE ABOUT OTTO WEININGER -- PHILOSOPHY, ANIMALITY AND JUSTICE: KLEIST, KAFKA, WEININGER AND WITTGENSTEIN -- AUREL KOLNAI -- IDENTITY AND DIVISION AS A FUNDAMENTAL THEME OF POLITICS -- 1. The articulation of society -- 2. Political life interpreted on the supposition of identities established by interests -- 3. The interpretation of politics in terms of shared ways of life -- 4. Identity and division as a theme in its own right -- 5. Conclusion: a note on conservative libertarianism -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.