Robert C.Holub is professor in the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Reflections of Realism (1991), Reception Theory (1984), and Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia (1981). He has edited two volumes of Heine’s works in English as well as the collection Teoria della ricezione (1989).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology in the social sciences; Chapter 3 On ideology and interpretation; Chapter 4 Democracy and the student movement; Chapter 5 Systems and society; Chapter 6 Modernity and postmodernity; Chapter 7 National Socialism and the Holocaust;

Robert C.Holub is professor in the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Reflections of Realism (1991), Reception Theory (1984), and Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia (1981). He has edited two volumes of Heine’s works in English as well as the collection Teoria della ricezione (1989).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology in the social sciences; Chapter 3 On ideology and interpretation; Chapter 4 Democracy and the student movement; Chapter 5 Systems and society; Chapter 6 Modernity and postmodernity; Chapter 7 National Socialism and the Holocaust;

Robert C.Holub is professor in the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Reflections of Realism (1991), Reception Theory (1984), and Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia (1981). He has edited two volumes of Heine’s works in English as well as the collection Teoria della ricezione (1989).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methodology in the social sciences; Chapter 3 On ideology and interpretation; Chapter 4 Democracy and the student movement; Chapter 5 Systems and society; Chapter 6 Modernity and postmodernity; Chapter 7 National Socialism and the Holocaust;