Introduction, John E. Joseph; Meschonnic’s Theory of Rhythm, his Key Concepts and their Relation, Marko Pajevi?; Meschonnic’s Poetics of Society, Marko Pajevi?; Prelimary Remarks to this Reader, Marko Pajevi?; Part 1: Critique of Rhythm; Chapter One: Poetics: Theoretical Activity, Poetic Activity; Chapter Two: Rhythm: What is at Stake in a Theory of Rhythm; Chapter Three: Metrics: Pure Metrics or Discourse Metrics; Chapter Four: Sign: Not the Sign, but Rhythm; Part 2: Poetry and Poem; Chapter Five: Rhythm Party Manifesto; Part 3: Rhyme and Life; Chapter Six: Life: Rhyme and Life; Chapter Seven: Orality: Orality, Poetics of the Voice; Chapter Eight: Subject: The subject of writing; Part 4: Translating;Chapter Nine: Translating and Society: Translating, and the Bible, in the Theory of Language and of Society; Chapter Ten: Translating and the Biblical: A Bible Blow to Philosophy; Chapter Eleven: Case study of Poetic Translating: The Name of Ophelia; Part 5: Modernity; Chapter Twelve: Modernity is a battle; Part 6: Historicity and Society; Chapter Thirteen: For a Poetics of Historicity; Chapter Fourteen: Realism, Nominalism: The Theory of Language is a Theory of Society; Annex; Index of Names; Index of Terminology; Glossary; Bibliography of Meschonnic’s book publications