4. The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Weimar Thought: Continuity and Crisis 1
4. Part I. Law, Politics, Society
5. 1. Weimar Sociology 15
6. 2. Weimar Psychology: Holistic Visions and Trained Intuition 35
7. 3. Legal Theory and the Weimar Crisis of Law and Social Change 55
8. 4. The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory 73
9. Part II. Philosophy, Theology, Science
10. 5. Kulturphilosophie in Weimar Modernism 101
11. 6. Weimar Philosophy and the Fate of Neo-Kantianism 115
12. 7. Weimar Philosophy and the Crisis of Historical Thinking 133
13. 8. Weimar Theology: From Historicism to Crisis 150
14. 9. Method, Moment, and Crisis in Weimar Science 179
15. Part III. Aesthetics, Literature, Film
16. 10. Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar Criticism 203
17. 11. Writers and Politics in the Weimar Republic 220
18. 12. Aesthetic Fundamentalism in Weimar Poetry: Stefan George and his Circle, 1918–1933 240
19. 13. Weimar Film Theory 273
20. 14. The Politics of Art and Architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919–1933 291
21. 15. Aby Warburg and the Secularization of the Image 316
22. Part IV. Themes of an Epoch
23. 16. Eastern Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe 341
24. 17. Weimar Femininity: Within and Beyond the Law 361
25. 18. The Weimar Left: Theory and Practice 377
26. 19. The Aftermath: Reflections on the Culture and Ideology of National Socialism 394
27. Weimar Thought: A Chronology 407
28. Contributors 417
29. Index 423