Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• INTRODUCTION
• LEO LOWENTHAL—  A FELICITATION
• PART I—  I NEVER WANTED TO PLAY ALONG:  INTERVIEWS WITH HELMUT DUBIEL
  • 1—  The Weimar Republic
  • 2—  The Institute of Social Research
  • 3—  The Voice of America
  • 4—  Scholarly Biography
  • 5—  Berkeley
• PART II—  MEMORIES AND MEMORIALS
  • 6—  Sociology of Literature in Retrospect
  • 7—  Theodor W. Adorno:  An Intellectual Memoir
  • 8—  Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno
  • 9—  In Memory of Walter Benjamin:  The Integrity of the Intellectual
• PART III—  ONGOING CONVERSATIONS
  • 10—  The Utopian Motif in Suspension:  A Conversation with Leo Lowenthal:  Interview with W. Martin Lüdke
  • 11—  The Left in Germany Has Failed:  Interview with Peter Glotz
  • 12—  Against Postmodernism:  Interview with Emilio Galli Zugaro