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About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction: European Thought, After the Deluge; 1.1 27832: 1914-2016; 1.2 To Mention the War; 1.3 Philosophy in a Time of War; 1.4 Prospectus; References; Part I: Singin' in the Shade?; Chapter 2: Singin' in the Shade: An Introduction to Post-Post-War Thought; References; Chapter 3: Nationality, State and Global Constitutionalism in Hermann Cohen's Wartime Writings; 3.1 Introduction: German Philosophy and 1914; 3.2 Messianic Politics in Cohen's Jewish Writings; 3.3 Cohen's Idealist Conception of the State as Law
3.4 The Problem of Nationality, or Germanism and Judaism3.5 Cohen's Teaching on Natural Right and the Problem of Noachite Laws; References; Part II: Weimar and Its Shadows; Chapter 4: The Sons Destined to Murder Their Father: Crisis in Interwar Germany; 4.1 Intergenerational Crisis in Philosophy: Cassirer and Heidegger; 4.2 Intergenerational Crisis in Jurisprudence: Kelsen and Schmitt; 4.3 Intergenerational Crisis in Theology: Harnack and Barth; 4.4 Crisis: A New Beginning or Nihilism?; 4.5 Continuity: The Limits of Crisis Philosophy; References
Chapter 5: The Spengler Connection: Total Critiques of Reason After the Great War5.1 Oswald Spengler and the Conservative Revolution; 5.2 Spengler's Metaphysics of Life; 5.3 The Oblivion of Being; 5.4 Horkheimer and Adorno's Critique of Enlightenment; 5.5 Poetic Insight?; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 6: The Significance of World War I in Jan Patočka's Philosophy; 6.1 Human Life, Modernity, War and Peace; 6.2 The Soldier and the Night of the Front; 6.3 Shaken to a New Aristeia? From Patočka to Jünger; 6.4 Crossing the Front Line, from Ernst Jünger to Wildred Owen; References
Part III: Intellectual MovementsChapter 7: The Challenges of the Great War to Freud's Psychoanalysis; 7.1 Freud's Psychoanalysis Before the Great War; 7.2 The Great War and the Death Instinct: Freud's Official Story; 7.3 The Great War and the Death Instincts: The Unofficial Story of Radical Choice; References; Chapter 8: The Long Shadow of Leninist Politics: Radical Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare After a Century; 8.1 The Two Revolutions; 8.2 The Jacobin Imaginary; 8.3 The Challenge of Schmitt, the "Right-Wing Lenin"; 8.4 The Specificity of the Political; References
Chapter 9: Hegel in Dark Times: The Resurrections of Geist from the Ashes of War9.1 Introduction: Hegel Wanted-Dead or Alive; 9.2 The Costs of War: Witnessing World-Spirit's Destruction; 9.3 New Battles Begin: Reconstructing Hegel After the War; 9.4 Lukács, Hegelianism and Class Consciousness; 9.5 The Year Hegel Was Reborn: Hegelianism Crosses the Rhine; 9.6 Concluding Remarks: Saving Hegel from the Last 100 Years; References; Chapter 10: The Spectre of Collectivism: Neoliberalism, the Wars, and Historical Revisionism; 10.1 The War and the Road to Serfdom
3.4 The Problem of Nationality, or Germanism and Judaism3.5 Cohen's Teaching on Natural Right and the Problem of Noachite Laws; References; Part II: Weimar and Its Shadows; Chapter 4: The Sons Destined to Murder Their Father: Crisis in Interwar Germany; 4.1 Intergenerational Crisis in Philosophy: Cassirer and Heidegger; 4.2 Intergenerational Crisis in Jurisprudence: Kelsen and Schmitt; 4.3 Intergenerational Crisis in Theology: Harnack and Barth; 4.4 Crisis: A New Beginning or Nihilism?; 4.5 Continuity: The Limits of Crisis Philosophy; References
Chapter 5: The Spengler Connection: Total Critiques of Reason After the Great War5.1 Oswald Spengler and the Conservative Revolution; 5.2 Spengler's Metaphysics of Life; 5.3 The Oblivion of Being; 5.4 Horkheimer and Adorno's Critique of Enlightenment; 5.5 Poetic Insight?; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 6: The Significance of World War I in Jan Patočka's Philosophy; 6.1 Human Life, Modernity, War and Peace; 6.2 The Soldier and the Night of the Front; 6.3 Shaken to a New Aristeia? From Patočka to Jünger; 6.4 Crossing the Front Line, from Ernst Jünger to Wildred Owen; References
Part III: Intellectual MovementsChapter 7: The Challenges of the Great War to Freud's Psychoanalysis; 7.1 Freud's Psychoanalysis Before the Great War; 7.2 The Great War and the Death Instinct: Freud's Official Story; 7.3 The Great War and the Death Instincts: The Unofficial Story of Radical Choice; References; Chapter 8: The Long Shadow of Leninist Politics: Radical Strategy and Revolutionary Warfare After a Century; 8.1 The Two Revolutions; 8.2 The Jacobin Imaginary; 8.3 The Challenge of Schmitt, the "Right-Wing Lenin"; 8.4 The Specificity of the Political; References
Chapter 9: Hegel in Dark Times: The Resurrections of Geist from the Ashes of War9.1 Introduction: Hegel Wanted-Dead or Alive; 9.2 The Costs of War: Witnessing World-Spirit's Destruction; 9.3 New Battles Begin: Reconstructing Hegel After the War; 9.4 Lukács, Hegelianism and Class Consciousness; 9.5 The Year Hegel Was Reborn: Hegelianism Crosses the Rhine; 9.6 Concluding Remarks: Saving Hegel from the Last 100 Years; References; Chapter 10: The Spectre of Collectivism: Neoliberalism, the Wars, and Historical Revisionism; 10.1 The War and the Road to Serfdom