1. Introduction
2. Instituting Power
3. Culture as an Orientation-Forming Symbol System. I. The Universalist Legacy of Cultural Theory
II. The Dual Character of Modern Culture
III. The Challenge of Information Technology
4. Creative Freedom as a Source of Cultural Dynamics. I. Transsubjective Conditions of Subjectivity
II. Imagination as Poetic Mimesis
III. On the Event Character of the New
5. Bourgeois Culture. I. The Gentleman as a Personality Ideal

II. The Technical Attitude to the World
III. The Social Body and the Body Politic
IV. Formation of the Subject: In the Mirror of Society
V. Legal Subjectivity and the Practices of Liberty Instituted in Society
VI. The Alien Claim and Disciplining Subjectification
6 The Anglo-American Variant: The Gentleman. I. Experimental Thinking and Useful Knowledge
II. Sociability and Other Virtues
III. The Mirror of Society Becomes Better Endowed

IV. Inclusive Institutions and Instituting Power
7. The Continental Variant: Honnête Homme and Bildungsbürger. I. The Sophisticated World of the Paris Salons
II. The German Bildungsroman
III. Subjectification as Subjugation and Empowerment
8. Managerial Culture. I The Rise of Large-Scale Enterprises
II The Research and Development Laboratory
III Trust between Strangers

IV. Managers in America and Germany
V. Annex: Images of Corporate Bodies
9. The Culture of Information Technology. I. Homo digitalis and the Theory of the Network Society
II. The Regional High-Tech Cluster
III The Organization of Economic Production
IV. On the Environmentalization of Legal Subjectivity

V. The Relevance of Instituting Power
10. Epilogue.