Includes bibliographical references and index.

A society of culture : the constitution of modernity -- Beyond the dichotomy : praxis and poiesis -- The paradoxical unity of culture : the arts and the sciences -- Interpretation of, and interpretation in, philosophy -- The ends of metaphysics -- Changing images of science -- Why is there no hermeneutics of natural sciences? : some preliminary theses -- After the system : philosophy in the epoch of sciences -- On our beliefs : about the cognitive structure of contemporary culture -- Culture : the making and the make-up of a concept : an essay in historical semantics -- Condorcet : communication/science/democracy -- Money and the book : Kant and the crisis of the German Enlightenment -- The Hegelian concept of culture -- Hegel and the end of art -- Marxism and theories of culture -- On ideology-critique--critically -- A philosophy lost : German philosophies of culture at the end of the nineteenth century -- Life and the soul : the young Lukacs and the problem of culture -- Walter Benjamin, or, The commodity as phantasmagoria -- Adorno and mass culture : autonomous art against the culture industry -- Antinomies of "culture."

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