Harry Redner

"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

• AcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Masters of Social ScienceIntroduction to Part I1 Marx: The Romance of RevolutionSection I—History as DramaSection II—Political RepresentationSection III—Enter WeberSection IV—Representation of Representation2 Weber: The State, Science, and the UniversitySection I—Anticipations of TotalitarianismSection II—History and Theory of the StateSection III—Science and Technology3 Freud and Elias: The Civilizing ProcessSection I—Freud's Discontents with CivilizationSection II—Elias' MannersSection III—Elias' StatePart II: Untergangsters of History and PhilosophyIntroduction to Part II 1034 Spengler: Cultural Pessimism and Anti-SemitismSection I—Kultur and ZivilizationSection II—The Invention of the MagianSection III—Caesar ex Machina5 Heidegger and Wittgenstein: Two Philosophers at Odds and EvensSection I—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and SpenglerSection II—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Anti-SemitismSection III—Wittgenstein on Language and MindSection IV—Wittgenstein on MathematicsSection V—Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte6 Hannah Arendt: The Politics of Metaphysical DespairSection I—Arendt and HeideggerSection II—Arendt on TotalitarianismPart III: Critics of Culture, Society, and ScienceIntroduction to Part III7 Nietzsche: The Prophet of NihilismSection I—Eschatology of HistorySection II—The Will to PowerSection III—Truth, Knowledge, and Reason as Power8 Foucault: Death and Resurrection of the SubjectSection I—Foucault and NietzscheSection II—Foucault and the Death of ManEpilogueIndex

Harry Redner

"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

• AcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Masters of Social ScienceIntroduction to Part I1 Marx: The Romance of RevolutionSection I—History as DramaSection II—Political RepresentationSection III—Enter WeberSection IV—Representation of Representation2 Weber: The State, Science, and the UniversitySection I—Anticipations of TotalitarianismSection II—History and Theory of the StateSection III—Science and Technology3 Freud and Elias: The Civilizing ProcessSection I—Freud's Discontents with CivilizationSection II—Elias' MannersSection III—Elias' StatePart II: Untergangsters of History and PhilosophyIntroduction to Part II 1034 Spengler: Cultural Pessimism and Anti-SemitismSection I—Kultur and ZivilizationSection II—The Invention of the MagianSection III—Caesar ex Machina5 Heidegger and Wittgenstein: Two Philosophers at Odds and EvensSection I—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and SpenglerSection II—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Anti-SemitismSection III—Wittgenstein on Language and MindSection IV—Wittgenstein on MathematicsSection V—Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte6 Hannah Arendt: The Politics of Metaphysical DespairSection I—Arendt and HeideggerSection II—Arendt on TotalitarianismPart III: Critics of Culture, Society, and ScienceIntroduction to Part III7 Nietzsche: The Prophet of NihilismSection I—Eschatology of HistorySection II—The Will to PowerSection III—Truth, Knowledge, and Reason as Power8 Foucault: Death and Resurrection of the SubjectSection I—Foucault and NietzscheSection II—Foucault and the Death of ManEpilogueIndex

Harry Redner

"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

• AcknowledgementsPrefacePart I: Masters of Social ScienceIntroduction to Part I1 Marx: The Romance of RevolutionSection I—History as DramaSection II—Political RepresentationSection III—Enter WeberSection IV—Representation of Representation2 Weber: The State, Science, and the UniversitySection I—Anticipations of TotalitarianismSection II—History and Theory of the StateSection III—Science and Technology3 Freud and Elias: The Civilizing ProcessSection I—Freud's Discontents with CivilizationSection II—Elias' MannersSection III—Elias' StatePart II: Untergangsters of History and PhilosophyIntroduction to Part II 1034 Spengler: Cultural Pessimism and Anti-SemitismSection I—Kultur and ZivilizationSection II—The Invention of the MagianSection III—Caesar ex Machina5 Heidegger and Wittgenstein: Two Philosophers at Odds and EvensSection I—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and SpenglerSection II—Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Anti-SemitismSection III—Wittgenstein on Language and MindSection IV—Wittgenstein on MathematicsSection V—Heidegger's Seinsgeschichte6 Hannah Arendt: The Politics of Metaphysical DespairSection I—Arendt and HeideggerSection II—Arendt on TotalitarianismPart III: Critics of Culture, Society, and ScienceIntroduction to Part III7 Nietzsche: The Prophet of NihilismSection I—Eschatology of HistorySection II—The Will to PowerSection III—Truth, Knowledge, and Reason as Power8 Foucault: Death and Resurrection of the SubjectSection I—Foucault and NietzscheSection II—Foucault and the Death of ManEpilogueIndex