First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

1. Urban Flights - The Institute of Social Research Between Frankfurt and New York; 2. The Debate Over Performative Contradiction - Habermas vs the Post-structuralists; 3. The Morals of Genealogy - Or is there a Post-structuralist Ethics?; 4. The Reassertion of Sovereignty in a Time of Crisis, Carl Schmitt and Georges Bataille; 5. Women in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt and Agnes Heller; 6. "The Aesthetic Ideology" as Ideology - Or What Does It Mean to Aestheticize Politics?; 7. The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Inability to Mourn; 8. The Rise of Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism; 9. Scopic Regimes of Modernity; 10. Ideology and Ocularcentrism - Is There Anything Behind the Mirror's Tain?; 11. Modernism and the Retreat From Form; 12. The Textual Approach to Intellectual History; 13. Name-Dropping or Dropping Names? Modes of Legitimation in the Humanities.