Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Philology and Humanism; 1.2 Philology and History; 1.3 Philology and Ideology; References; Chapter 2: Erich Auerbach: Life, Times, and Works; References; Chapter 3: Dante and the "Discovery of European Representation of Man"; References; Chapter 4: The Crisis of German Philology: Aryan Philology and the Elimination of the Old Testament; References; Chapter 5: Two Responses to the German Crisis of Philology: Ernst Robert Curtius and Erich Auerbach; References.

Chapter 6: Exile and Interpretation: The Struggle Against Aryan Philology and Nazi Barbarism6.1 "Figura"-Apologia for the Old Testament in an Age of Aryan Philology; 6.2 Epiphany in Istanbul; 6.3 Philology, Teleology, and Historicist Humanism; References; Chapter 7: Mimesis: An Apologia for Western Judaeo-ƯChristian Humanist Tradition in an Age of Peril, Tyranny, and Barbarism; 7.1 The Real, Geist, and History; 7.2 Form and Content; 7.3 Method and Approach; 7.4 "Odysseus' Scar"; 7.5 History, Philology, and the Rise of the Literary Representation of Reality: Chapters 2-19.

7.6 The Decline of the West and Dissolution of the Representation of RealityReferences; Chapter 8: Epilogue: Exile, Interpretation, and Alienation; References; Appendices; Appendix 1: Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis; Elective Affinities; The Art of Mimesis; Hegel: History, Reality, and Truth; Two Modes of Representing Reality: Homer and the Old Testament; References; Appendix 2: Exile and Criticism: Edward Said's Interpretation of Erich Auerbach; References; Bibliography; Index.