Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche.

Abstract

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.