Literature and society in Germany -- What Germans really read -- Death, time, and history -- The poet and the exercise of political power -- Caesarism, circuses, and monuments -- The French right and the working classes -- The heritage of socialist humanism -- Toward a general theory of fascism -- The mystical origins of national socialism -- Nazi polemic theater -- Fascism and the avant garde -- The secularization of Jewish theology -- The Jews and the German war experience, 1914-1918 -- German socialists and the Jewish question in the Weimar Republic.