Introduction
The failure of neo-humanism
Philologists, liberals, and the nation
The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig
The demands of history
Toward a cautious materialism
Teleology and the laws of history
The formation of imperial Germany, seen from Basel
Intellectual culture in Basel
The practice of cultural history
The need for philosophical education
The "German spirit" and the Franco-Prussian War
The crisis of historical culture
The crisis of historicism
What is orientation in history?
The political mobilization of myth
"The soul of the antiquarian"
The impossible critical historian
Political lessons from cultural anthropology
The view from outside
Lessons from anthropology
Metaphor, myth, and cultural reality
"Survivals" - religion and the nation state
Political realism and the "free spirit"
Genealogy, naturalism, and the political
The path to genealogy
A natural history of moral communities
Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility
The task of genealogy
"To translate humanity back into nature"
The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy
"The creation of the European individual"
Beyond the modern nation state
Political realities in imperial Germany
Modernity and the limits of genealogy.
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