| Flight from Eden |
| A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION |
 | INTRODUCTION: HOW LITERARY CRITICISM CAME INTO ITS OWN IN THIS COUNTRY AND HOW THE POETS GOT THERE FIRST |
 | PART I— LANGUAGE |
| Chapter One— Flight from Eden: Myths about Myths about Language in Modern Times |
| The Russian Tradition from Potebnia to Shklovsky, with Some Poets in Between |
| Chapter Three— Mallarmé and the Elocutionary Disappearance of the Poet |
| PART II— THEOLOGY |
| • | Introduction: The Hidden God |
| Chapter Four— How God Didn't Quite Die in France |
| Chapter Five— Icon and Logos, or Why Russian Philosophy Is Always Theology |
| • | Chapter Six— Roman Jakobson, or How Logology and Mythology Were Exported |
| PART III— RELATIONALISM |
| • | Chapter Seven— Numbers, Systems, Functions—and Essences |
| Chapter Eight— Descartes in Relational Garb |
| Chapter Nine— How Numbers Ran Amok in Russia |
| PART IV— ONTOLOGY |
| • | Chapter Ten— The Being of Artworks |
| Chapter Eleven— Being in the World and Being in Structures in Mallarmé and Valéry |
| • | The "Unique, Difficult Being" of Language |
| • | The "Unique, Difficult Being" of the Work |
| • | Valéry and the Relational Essence of Human Things |
| Chapter Twelve— Into the World of Names and Out of the Museum |
| Chapter Thirteen— Rilke's House of Being |
| Notes |
| INDEX |