Martin Jay is Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He is author of numerous books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 and Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory.

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• IntroductionChapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment ofthe PastChapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of ContextualizationChapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin SkinnerChapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and ArendtChapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual HistoryChapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? LukÁcs's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian RevolutionChapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial AnxietyChapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and PhotographyChapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and SimmelChapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of HistoriansChapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free SpeechNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Martin Jay is Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He is author of numerous books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 and Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory.

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• IntroductionChapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment ofthe PastChapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of ContextualizationChapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin SkinnerChapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and ArendtChapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual HistoryChapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? LukÁcs's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian RevolutionChapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial AnxietyChapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and PhotographyChapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and SimmelChapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of HistoriansChapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free SpeechNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Martin Jay is Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He is author of numerous books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 and Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory.

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• IntroductionChapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment ofthe PastChapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of ContextualizationChapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin SkinnerChapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and ArendtChapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual HistoryChapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? LukÁcs's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian RevolutionChapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial AnxietyChapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and PhotographyChapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and SimmelChapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of HistoriansChapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free SpeechNotesIndexAcknowledgments