First half: Theories and theorists, new value-free sociology, on the philosophy of Husserl, Husserl and the problem of idealism, cultural anthropology, will Spengler be right? Max Horkheimer, radio speech on Max Horkheimer, open letter to Max Horkheimer, gratulor, a suppressed preface. Walter Benjamin: on Benjamin's memory, afterword to "Berlin childhood at nineteen hundred," reminiscences, preface to Rolf Tiedemann's "Studies in the philosophy of Walter Benjamin," interim decision, a l'écart de tous les courants. For Ernst Bloch, after Kracauer's death, Oswald Spengler, man and technology, Alfred Kleinberg, the European culture of the modern era, Herbert Marcuse, Hegel's ontology and the foundation of a theory of historicity, Bernhard Groethuysen, the emergence of the bourgeois welt- und lebensanschauung in France.