German thought and culture: from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day

1. The Holy Roman Empire, the tradition of the Reich and German particularism

2. German Protestantism and the relationship of Church and State

3. The individual and the state in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany

4. Weltliteratur and Nationalliteratur in their relationship to the Enlightenment

5. Germany's 'pedagogical province'

6. The rise of the Burger and the establishment of a nation state

7. The decline of philosophical idealism and the road to inhumanity

8. Germany today, a re-evaluation.