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The seventeen insightful and well-polished essays echo this point, though less polemically, by showing how perceptions of "crisis" after World War I decisively shaped intellectual projects. In their introduction, Gordon and McCormick criticize the "terrific burst of dehistoricized 'theory'" that has "plundered the past for its insights," while obscuring the "differences between past and present" (2). The emphasis is on thinkers who demonstrate Weimar's importance as a "birthplace of European intellectual modernity" (2).Īccording to the editors, the collection aims to explore Weimar thought within its political, social, and cultural contexts. Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, and Carl Schmitt appear frequently cranky ideologues like Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, eugenicists like Alfred Ploetz, and forgotten doyens of Weimar scholarship like the historian Friedrich Meinecke generally do not. While a few contributors discuss neglected thinkers, most focus on the giants of German science and letters, including some who are more in vogue today than they were in interwar Europe. The essays focus on discrete problems of interpretation and contextualization, and the coverage is selective. Yet, this is no comprehensive survey or handbook of Weimar thought.
The book covers a wide range of topics on the intellectual history of the Weimar Republic, from poetry to biology, sociology to art history, politics to film theory. Weimar Thought is an idiosyncratic collection. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
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