Table of Contents for

Sublime Historical Experience

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Experience in history and in philosophy

1.      Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty

2.      From language to experience

3.      Huizinga and the experience of the past

4.      Fragments of a history of historical experience

5.      Gadamer and historical experience

6.      (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience

7.      Subjective historical experience: The past as elegy

8.      Sublime historical experience

Epilogue: Rousseau and Hölderlin

Notes

Index