Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Unity and Diversity of Weimar Thought -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part I. Law, Politics, Society -- 1. Weimar Sociology -- Georg Simmel: Sociology and Cultural Fragmentation -- Max Weber: Sociology and Power -- Karl Mannheim: Sociology and Politics -- Notes -- 2. Weimar Psychology -- Weimar-Era Psychology -- Psychology in Weimar-Era Crisis Talk -- Trained Intuition and Technocratic Expertise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Legal Theory and the Weimar Crisis of Law and Social Change -- Legal Positivism as the New Juridical Status Quo -- The Weberian Problematic -- Schmitt's Challenge to Legal Formalism -- Schmitt and the Republic's Final Constitutional Crisis -- Notes -- 4. The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory -- Weber: Rationalization, Political Leadership, and Ideological Commitment -- Schmitt: A "Natual Son"? -- Lukacs: From Weber to Marx -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. Philosophy, Theology, Science -- 5. Kulturphilosophie in Weimar Modernism -- Notes -- 6. Weimar Philosophy and the Fate of Neo-Kantianism -- Historicism -- Nihilism, or Kirlov's Resurrection -- Pessimism, or the Ghost of Jean-Jacques -- Notes -- 7. Weimar Philosophy and the Crisis of Historical Thinking -- Spengler's The Decline of the West -- Rickert and Troeltsch -- Historicism Deconstructed -- Notes -- 8. Weimar Theology -- The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance -- The History and Sociology of Religion -- Theologies of Crisis -- From Experience to Existence -- Philosophies of Judaism -- The Descent into Political Theology -- Notes -- 9. Method, Moment, and Crisis in Weimar Science -- The Scientific Enterprise -- The Sciences of Life -- Mathematics and Physics -- Questions of Method and Knowledge -- A Scientific Philosophy? -- Putting Science into Historical Time.

Notes -- Part III. Aesthetics, Literature, Film -- 10. Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar Criticism -- Benjamin, Kracauer, and the Criticism of Popular Culture -- Denkbild and Little Form -- Weimar Criticism -- Notes -- 11. Writers and Politics in the Weimar Republic -- Brothers in Conflict -- The Five Voices of Kurt Tucholsky -- Politics and the Magic Mountain -- Defenders of the Republic -- Doblin's Experiments in Form -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 12. Aesthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry -- Secret Germany and Weimar Germany -- Imperium Teutonicum or Pan-Europa? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- 13. Weimar Film Theory -- Theorizing Film, Debating Modernity -- Three Models of Weimar Film Criticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14. The Politics of Art and Architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919 - 1933 -- Introduction -- New Art for a New Nation -- The Bauhaus as a Bastion of Social and Artistic Idealism -- Bauhaus Battles for Survival -- The Bauhaus Legacy -- Notes -- 15. Aby Warburg and the Secularization of the Image -- Aby Warburg and Mnemosyne -- Warburg's Readin of the Laocoon -- Weimar Ways of Seeing -- Heartfield and Montage -- Photography and Politics Today -- The Afterlife of Weimar Seeing -- Afterword -- Notes -- Part IV. Themes of an Epoch -- 16. Eastern Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair -- Notes -- 17. Weimar Femininity -- Gender, Pacifism, and International Conflict -- Specialization, Mechanization, and the "Particular Cultural Task of Woman" -- A Psychoanalytic Intervention -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 18. The Weimar Left -- Notes -- 19. The Aftermath -- Notes -- Weimar Thought: A Chronology -- Contributors -- Index.