Abbreviations List of Illustrations Part I: Keys to the Open Trove: Introducing Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona Self-portrait, Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona Friedlaender/Mynona's Performative Philosophy: A Short Introduction, Alice Lagaay The Indifferentism of Polar Performance, Detlef Thiel Part II: Which Knot Should We Use to Hold Him, the Old Shape-Shifting Proteus? Philosophical and Grotesque Pieces The Wooer of Truth (1903) Four Texts on Theatre (1909-1901) Friedrich Nietzsche: An Intellectual Biography; Chapter VI: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1911) Marionettes, Humans and Gods: On the Centenary of Heinrich von Kleist's Death (1911) Aerosophy (1911) Polarity: A Philosophical Lecture (1912) Carnival of Logic (1912) Towards a Profane Theology (1913) A Child's Heroic Deed (1913) Presentism (1913) The Middle between Extremes: Preventing a Misunderstanding (1913) Idea for a Telehaptor (1913) Once More: Polarity, or the Essence of Difference (1915) Trenko patrollo (sonnet, 1918) Part III: The Cult, Yet Largely Unread, Book: Creative Indifference (1918/1926, excerpts) Preface to the Second Edition in Avowal of Allegiance to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus Preamble Treatise 1 (First Part) Sketches: Ethics; Individual; Value; Colour Aphorisms (Select Aphorisms) Part IV: Through the Magical I: Later Writings in Exile The Flight of Love (1919) Grotesque (1919) The Antichrist and Ernst Bloch (1920) The Star Festival (1922) George Grosz (1922, selections) On the Occasion of Mynona's Hundredth Birthday (1928) Why did the Colour Teacher Goethe Discard the Colour Theory of the Goethean Schopenhauer? (1932) On Immortality: A conversation between an empiricist and the deceased Old-Kantian Ernst Marcus (1933) On World Ether: According to Immanuel Kant and Ernst Marcus (1934) The Laughing Job (1935) Spengler's Death (1936) The Magical I: Elements of Critical Polarism (1935, excerpts) Idea Magic (1945, excerpts) Library (sonnet, 1943) Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism (1946) Part V: The Air I Breathe: A Selection of Letters To Paul Scheerbart (19 May 1904) To Martin Buber (2 August 1908) To Georg von Lukács (12 July 1911) To Hannah Höch & Tilit Brugman (1924-30) To Eduard W. Tieffenbach (20 September 1933) To Leo Ragolsky (13 April 1935) To Doris Hahn (14 June 1935) To Alfred Kubin (10 April 1936) To Anselm Ruest (13 September 1943) Part VI: Tool Chest of Reference Materials On Ernst Marcus' Eccentric Sensation ( Exzentrische Empfindung ), Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona and Upton Sinclair: Christoph Keller and Detlef Thiel in Conversation Biobibliography of Salomo Friedlaender/Mynona Bibliography Credits About the Translators Index.