Contributors; Introduction Michael S. Roth; Part I. Ideas, Institutions, Professions: 1. Psychopathologies of modern space: metropolitan fear from agoraphobia to estrangement Anthony Vidler; 2. Selective affinities: three generations of German intellectuals Harry Liebersohn; 3. The moral journey of the first Viennese psychoanalysts Louis Rose; 4. Psychoanalysis, sexual morality, and the clinical situation Peter Loewenberg; 5. Ideals and reality in the Austrian Universities, 1850-1914 Gary B. Cohen; 6. Freedon and death: Goethe's Faust and the Greek War of Independence William J. McGrath; 7. Experience without a subject: Walter Benjamin and the novel Martin Jay; Part II. Aesthetic Politics and Aesthetic Religion: 8. Weaving paintings: religious and social origins of Vincent van Gogh's pictorial labor Debora Silverman; 9. From princely collection to public museums: toward a history of the German art museum James J. Sheehan; 10. Musical historicism and the transcendental foundation of commuity: Medelssohn's Lobgesang and the 'Christian-German' cultural politics of Frederick William IV John Toews; 11. Broken vessels: aestheticism and modernity in henry James and Walter Benjamin Michael P. Steinberg; 12. 'Girls and crisis': the political aesthetics of the kickline in Weimar Berlin Peter Jalavich; Part III. Constructing the Self: 13. Gross David with the swoln cheek: an essay on self-portraiture T. J. Clark; 14. Facing the patriarch in early Davidian painting Thomas Crow; 15. Saying 'I': Victor Cousin, Caroline Angebert, and the politics of selfhood in nineteenth-century France Jan Goldstein; 16. Freud's use and abuse of the past Michael S. Roth; 17. The subjectivity of structure: individuality and its contradiciton in Levi-Strauss Jerrold Seigel; Part IV. Narrative, History, Temporality: 18. A reflecting story Pierre Bourdieu; 19. Fiction as historical evidence: a dialogue in Paris, 1646 Carlo Ginzburg; 20. The ephemeral and the eternal: reflections on history Patrizia Lombardo; 21. Cultural history and crisis: Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Lionel Gossman; Publications of Carel E. Schorske; Notes; Index.
