Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Mythmaking -- Chapter 2. Hans Henny Jahnn's Mythology of Death -- Chapter 3. Hubert Fichte's Postcolonial Syncretism -- Chapter 4. Joseph Beuys's Aesthetic of Transformation -- Chapter 5. Werner Herzog's New Grammar of Images -- Chapter 6. Political Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index