1. Eric Fromm's legacy and contribution to the early Frankfurt School
1.1. The airbrushing of Fromm from the history of the Institute
1.2. The Lehrhaus to the Therapeuticum
1.3. Fromm and the Institute for Social Research
Interlude: Fromm from Mexico to Switzerland
2. Weimar Germany, prophetic to apocalyptic
2.1. The German Jewish left and the milieu of Weimar Germany
2.2. Three from the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus
2.3. Two "theologians of the revolution"
2.4. Air from other planets: Stefan George's reactionary antinomianism
3. What hope isn't and is
3.1. What hope is not
3.2. What hope is
3.3. Grounds for hope
4. Fromm's concepts of prophetic and catastrophic messianism
4.1. Apocalyptic vs. prophetic messianism: response to Eduardo Mendieta
4.2. The ecstatic-cathartic model vs. prophetic messianism: response to Rainer Funk.