Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Masters of Social Science

Introduction to Part I

1 Marx: The Romance of Revolution
Section I—History as Drama
Section II—Political Representation
Section III—Enter Weber
Section IV—Representation of Representation

2 Weber: The State, Science, and the University
Section I—Anticipations of Totalitarianism
Section II—History and Theory of the State
Section III—Science and Technology

3 Freud and Elias: The Civilizing Process
Section I—Freud's Discontents with Civilization
Section II—Elias' Manners
Section III—Elias' State

Part II: Untergangsters of History and Philosophy

Introduction to Part II 103

4 Spengler: Cultural Pessimism and Anti-Semitism
Section I—Kultur and Zivilization
Section II—The Invention of the Magian
Section III—Caesar ex Machina

5 Heidegger and Wittgenstein: Two Philosophers at Odds and Evens
Section I—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Spengler
Section II—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Anti-Semitism
Section III—Wittgenstein on Language and Mind
Section IV—Wittgenstein on Mathematics
Section V—Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte

6 Hannah Arendt: The Politics of Metaphysical Despair
Section I—Arendt and Heidegger
Section II—Arendt on Totalitarianism

Part III: Critics of Culture, Society, and Science

Introduction to Part III

7 Nietzsche: The Prophet of Nihilism
Section I—Eschatology of History
Section II—The Will to Power
Section III—Truth, Knowledge, and Reason as Power

8 Foucault: Death and Resurrection of the Subject
Section I—Foucault and Nietzsche
Section II—Foucault and the Death of Man

Epilogue

Index

About the Author

Harry Redner

Reviews

"If one puts this book in the context of the full four-volume study, it amounts to an extraordinary achievement, involving years of reading and reflection and covering an enormous amount of ground." - Professor Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, USA