Introduction : Weimar thought : continuity and crisis / Peter E. Gordon and John P. McCormick -- Weimar sociology / David Kettler and Colin Loader -- Weimar psychology : holistic visions and trained intuition / Mitchell G. Ash -- Legal theory and the Weimar crisis of law and social change / John P. McCormick -- The legacy of Max Weber in Weimar political and social theory / Dana Villa -- Kulturphilosophie in Weimar modernism / John Michael Krois -- Weimar philosophy and the fate of neo-Kantianism / Frederick Beiser -- Weimar philosophy and the crisis of historical thinking / Charles Bambach -- Weimar theology : from historicism to crisis / Peter E. Gordon -- Method, moment, and crisis in Weimar science / Cathryn Carson -- Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and Weimar criticism / Michael Jennings -- Writers and politics in the Weimar Republic / Karin Gunnemann -- Aesthetic fundamentalism in Weimar poetry : Stefan George and his circle, 1918-1933 / Martin A. Ruehl -- Weimar film theory / Sabine Hake -- The politics of art and architecture at the Bauhaus, 1919-1933 / John V. Maciuika -- Aby Warburg and the secularization of the image / Michael P. Steinberg -- Eastern wisdom in an era of western despair : orientalism in 1920s Central Europe / Susanne Marchand -- Weimar femininity : within and beyond the law / Tracie Matysik -- The Weimar left : theory and practice / Martin Jay -- The aftermath : reflections on the culture and ideology of national socialism / Anson Rabinbach -- Weimar thought : a chronology.