• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. The puer robustus as an evil man: Thomas Hobbes
• 1. The threshold creature caught between power, morality and history 2. Self-interest and reason 3. Hobbes’s egocentric troublemakers: Fools, epileptics, madmen, the poor and the rich 4. Author-actor-audience theory: The eccentric troublemaker in the belly of the Leviathan 5. The puer robustus of Horace – a model for Hobbes?
• II. The puer robustus as a good man: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1. The power and morality of the savage 2. The transformation of the puer robustus into a citizen 3. What does Rousseau’s puer robustus do after his victory? Democracy and disturbance of the peace
• III. Rameau’s nephew as a puer robustus: Denis Diderot
• 1. Hobbes’s sublime definition 2. The puer robustus as a social problem or ambivalent character: Diderot beyond Helvétius, Hobbes and Rousseau 3. Life on the threshold: Rameau’s Nephew 4. Hegel’s and Foucault’s nephew
• IV. Unloving child, wicked son, strong savior: Friedrich Schiller
• 1. The puer robustus as a “freedman of creation” 2. Franz and Karl Moor: All power for me – or a different power for all? 3. Wilhelm Tell’s journey from loner to league founder
• V. The puer robustus as victim and hero: Victor Hugo
• 1. Quasimodo as a monkey gone wrong 2. The birth of wickedness from humiliation 3. Moral emancipation 4. The street urchin as a puer robustus 5. The relatives of the street urchin: Balzac’s real man and Baudelaire’s little savage
• VI. Siegfried, foolish boy: Richard Wagner
• 1. The contract as a crime against nature 2. External salvation 3. The hero as child and dullard: Siegfried’s recipe for success
• VII. The puer robustus between Europe and America: Alexis de Tocqueville
• 1. The birth of the puer robustus under the yoke of despotism: Tocqueville’s first insight  2. Praise for America and a warning against the Wild West 3. The birth of the puer robustus from the spirit of capitalism: Tocqueville’s second insight 4. Life as a revolution and experiment: Tocqueville, Mill, Nietzsche
• VIII. The puer robustus as a revolutionary: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• 1. The people is by far the most dangerous 2. The fight against dependence and separation 3. The lumpenproletariat as the spoilsport of the revolution 4. The revolutionary subject as a species-being or community-being
• IX. The puer robustus as Oedipus: Sigmund Freud
• 1. The little savage 2. Democracy and dictatorship 3. Politics after Freud: A debate between Walter Lippmann, Paul Federn, Hans Blüher, Thomas Mann and Hans Kelsen
• X. Anarchists, adventurers, young rowdies and little savages:
• Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Helmut Schelsky and Max Horkheimer
• 1. Blossoming in dark times: Hobbes da capo 2. Carl Schmitt on the total state and its enemies 3. Leo Strauss on the closed society and adventurers 4. Helmut Schelsky on power and young rowdies 5. Max Horkheimer on the authoritarian state and little savages
• XI. Good spirits and poisonous weeds: The puer robustus in Italy in 1949 and China in 1957
• 1. Togliatti’s New Year’s message to his comrades 2. Mao Zedong and Tan Tianrong on fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds 3. From China back to Europe: We can forget Alain Badiou
• XII. The puer robustus today
• 1. No end to history 2. The egocentric troublemaker and the financial crisis 3. The eccentric and nomocentric troublemaker – and the democratic paradox 4. The massive troublemaker and fundamentalism 5. The little savage and the populism of Donald Trump 6. On the threshold
• Notes
• List of abbreviations
• Literature
• Index

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