"First Schocken edition published in 1986"--Title page verso "Preface copyright 2007 by Leon Wieseltier"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-340) and index.
A Berlin chronicle -- One-way street (selection) -- Moscow -- Marseilles -- Hashish in Marseilles -- Paris, capital of the nineteenth century -- Naples -- Surrealism -- Brecht's Threepenny novel -- Conversations with Brecht -- The author as producer -- Karl Kraus -- Critique of violence -- The destructive character -- Fate and character -- Theologico-political fragment -- On language as such and on the language of man -- On the mimetic faculty.