A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume I: Renaissance and Reformation Book

Introduction to the Transaction Edition     xiii
Introduction: What is Cultural History and Why is it Studied?     3
The Forgotten Star
All Things Have Their Philosophy
Aesthetic, Ethical, Logical History-Writing
Map and Portrait
School-Book History
Unscientific Character of the Basic Concepts of History-writing
Subterranean Course of Historical Action
Ranke's Error
All History is Legend
Homunculus and Euphorion
"Historical Novels"
Incompleteness as Far as Possible
Exaggeration
Economics
Society
State
Custom
Science, Art, Philosophy, Religion
The Philosophers' Stone
The Representative Man
The Expressionist Dog
Spiritual Costume-History
Genius is a Product of the Age
The Age is a Product of the Genius
Genius and Age are Incommensurable
Pedigree
Lessing and Herder
Winckelmann and Voltaire
Hegel and Comte
Buckle
Burckhardt
Taine
Lamprecht
Breysig
Spengler
History in a Late Period
Pro Domo
The Professional Dilettante
The Inevitable Paradox
The Legitimate Plagiarist
Pathological and Physiological Originality
Renaissance and Reformation: From the Black Death to the Thirty Years' War
The Beginning     51
The Will to Pigeon-Hole
The Right to Periodize
The Conception of the New Man
The "Transitional Period"
Beginning of the Excursus on the Value of Sickness
The Healthiest Being is the Amoeba
All That is Becoming is Decadent
Higher Value of Organs in Lowered Condition
Health is, Therefore, a Metabolism-Sickness
The Lernaean Hydra
The Achilles Out of theHeel
The Survival of the Unfit
Genius is Never Healthy
Genius is Never Sick
The Threefold Division of Mankind
Production as a Refuge
The Mediaeval Soul     71
The "Romanticism" of the Middle Ages
Life as Adventure
Psychosis of Puberty
The Sainted Dog
No Relation to Money
Universalia Sunt Realia
The World-Cathedral
The Physics of Belief
Everything is
The Scene Changes
The Incubation Period     81
The Discovery of the Plague
The Parallel Epidemic
The Well-Poisoners
Cosmic Disturbance
World-Downfall
Dethronement of Universals
Christ in the Donkey
The Two Faces of Nominalism
Twilight
Folie Circulaire
Anarchy from Above
Loosening of the Orders of Society
Sickening of the Metaphysical Organ
Practical Nihilism
Intensified Economic Life
Rise of the Guilds
Professional Dilettantism
Dawn of Rationalism
Poetry of Actuality
Emancipation
Decay of Chivalry
The Great Transvaluation
Picturesque Filth
Oriental Tumult
Standard of Living
The Open Roads
The Holy Fehme
Erotic Driven Out by Sexuality
The Culture of the Table
The World-Nightmare
The Fourfold Pincers
The Luxemburg Comet
Crowned Paranoiacs
English-French Chaos
Anti-Clericalism
Wyclif
Papa Triumphans
Daemons and Magicians
Money Economics with a Bad Conscience
The World-Brothel
Motley
The Vision
Throned Stockbrokers
The Nihilist on the Throne
The Three Deceivers
Coincidentia Oppositorum
Nicolaus Cusanus
Dual Truth, Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Counterpoint, and Dance of Death
The Oversoul
The New Religion
The School of Eckhart
The "Frankforter"
Mysticism of the Painters
A Parallel
World's Dawn
La Rinascita     149
The two Poles
Culture Consists in Wealth of Problems
The Italian Microcosm
The "Latin Formation"
The Rebirth to Godlikeness
Farewell to the Middle Ages
Chronology of the Renaissance
Italy's Start
The Heyday of Early Capitalism
The Renaissance City
Comfort
Artistic Meals
The World of the Profile
Birth of the Revolver Press
The Divine Aretino
La Grande Putana
L'Uomo Universale
The Renaissance Public
The "Disunity" of Italy
The Return to the Classical
Petrarch
The Pseudo-Renaissance
The Cinquecento
The Will to Stylize
A Sophist Age
The Humanists
The "Literary" Character of the Renaissance
The Rift in the Culture
Predominance of Form-Art
Michelangelo
Leonardo
Raphael
Raphael's Vicissitudes of Fame
The "Darling of the Gods"
The Basic Error of Classicism
Machiavelli
"Immoralism"
The "Guilt" of the Renaissance
Beauty or Goodness
The Second Fall of Man
Reason takes charge     199
World-History as a Dramatic Problem
The Drama of the Modern Age
The New Look
The Curve from 1500 to 1900
The Mystical Experience-World of the "Primitives"
Pre-Logical or Super-Logical?
The Rationalist Intermezzo
The Three Black Arts
Paracelsus
Cannon-Fodder and Movable Types
Copernicus
The Conquest of "Cape Non"
Columbus
Round the Globe in Eleven Hundred Days
The Crime of the Conquista
The Late Culture of Mexico
Christian Elements in Aztec Religion
The White God
Peru
America's Return Gift
Faust
Triumph of Man over God
From the Theoretic to the Geocentric World Picture
The Augustine Monk
The German Religion     229
God and the Peoples
The Four Components of the Reformation
The Nightingale of Wittenberg
Reformers Before the Reformation
Words and Deeds
The Dual Aspect of Luther
The Last of the Monks
Jehovah Indelebilis
Luther's Damascus
Luther's Heroic Period
Luther's Pope
Triumph of Gutenberg Man over Gothic Man
Luther as Creator of a Language
Luther and the Arts
Luther and the Peasants' War
Luther's Slackening
Luther and Transubstantiation
Luther and the Dogma of Justification
Paul
The Judaic Apostle
Augustine
Calvinism
The Radicals
Sebastian Franck
Birth of Cabinet Politics
Psychology of the Habsburgs
The Secret of Charles V
Victory of Theology Over Religion
The Monster of Creation
Grobianism
Rabelais
Plebeianism Unmitigated Still
The Classic Age of Repletion
The Landsknecht Style
Hegemony of Craft-Art
The Witches' Hammer
Witch-Mania and Psychoanalysis
Secularization of Humanity
The Anti-Evangelical Evangelical
Jesus and the "Social Question"
God and the Soul
Holy Idleness
The Night of St. Bartholomew
The Earthly Hell
The Counterstroke
The Council of Trent
Pan-European Intolerance
Anglicanism
Natural Law
The Army of Jesus
The Iniquity of Jesuitism
Philip II
The World-Escorial
Spanish Colonial Policy
The Revolt of the Netherlands
Collapse of Philip's System
Don Juan and Don Quixote
World-Rule of the Spanish Style
French Classicism and Comic-Opera Naturalism
The Sceptic Affirmation of Life
The Montaigne-Man
Jakob Bohme
Giordano Bruno
Francis Bacon
The Rise of England
The Elizabethan Man
The Awkward Age of Capitalism
The Exact Sciences
The World of the Telescope
The Character of Bacon
Bacon as Philosopher
Bacon Before Bacon
Bacon's Anti-Philosophy
Bacon's Fame
The Homely King
The Soul of Shakspere
Shakspere's Theatre
The World as a Dream
The Agony of the Renaissance
The Second Trauma
The New Question     294
Chronology     349
Index     353