| Acknowledgents | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| 1 | Two Concepts of Individuality | |
| I) | Friedrich Schleiermacher: The Divided Self | 18 |
| II) | Wilhelm von Humboldt: The Whole Man | 27 |
| III) | Politics and the Psyche | 35 |
| IV) | Toward European Romanticism | 50 |
| 2 | Friedrich Schlegel | |
| I) | Irony as Possession and Demystification of Infinity | 54 |
| II) | The Road to Revolution | 67 |
| III) | The Birth of Romanticism | 112 |
| 3 | William Wordsworth | |
| I) | Criminals and Prophets | 139 |
| II) | The Road To Revolution | 147 |
| III) | The Radical Wordsworth | 170 |
| IV) | A Tenuous Resolution | 207 |
| 4 | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand | |
| I) | Le Vague des Passions | 240 |
| II) | Chateaubriand the Revolutionary | 252 |
| III) | The Reversal | 278 |
| IV) | Transition: Religion and Selfhood | 290 |
| Conclusion | 308 |
| Notes | 313 |
| Bibliography | 335 |
| Index | 347 |