Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique
1. Urban Flights - The Institute of Social Research Between Frankfurt and New York 2. The Debate Over Performative Contradiction - Habermas vs the Post-structuralists 3. The Morals of Genealogy - Or is there a Post-structuralist Ethics? 4. The Reassertion of Sovereignty in a Time of Crisis, Carl Schmitt and Georges Bataille 5. Women in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt and Agnes Heller 6. "The Aesthetic Ideology" as Ideology - Or What Does It Mean to Aestheticize Politics? 7. The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Inability to Mourn 8. The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism 9. Scopic Regimes of Modernity 10. Ideology and Ocularcentrism - Is There Anything Behind the Mirror's Tain? 11. Modernism and the Retreat From Form 12. The Textual Approach to Intellectual History 13. Name-Dropping or Dropping Names? Modes of Legitimation in the Humanities.