Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of the Past 28
5. Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization 34
6. Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner 48
7. Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century 62
8. Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt 78
9. Chapter 6. “Hey! What’s the Big Idea?”: Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History 93
10. Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness and the Rus sian Revolution 106
11. Chapter 8. Can Photo graphs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety 124
12. Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography 140
13. Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel 155
14. Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians 174
15. Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field? 193
16. Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech 204
17. Notes 219
18. Index 283
19. Acknowledgments 297