Tensions and contradictory movements, shock and resignation marked the European cultural and intellectual epoch following World War I, but these phenomena were accompanied by a vigorous drive for reorientation. In such varying developments as the November Revolution, surrealism and the post-World War I phase of expressionism, soldier romanticism and Spengler’s Der Untergang des Abendlandes, these contradictions are apparent and make characterizing the time a challenge. Labelling this ambiguous situation a “crisis”, a term stemming from ancient medicine, seems to indicate that society is either an organism in need of healing or that it is in a state of struggle that must be resolved by a decision, as pointed out by Dietrich Korsch. The term “crisis” is however commonly universalised to designate a circumstance that challenges interpretation and orientation (Korsch 2013, p. 95). Applied at a societal scale, the idea of a crisis indicates a loss of orientation, affecting both a society’s general resilience and ability to navigate through social transformations and accordingly the proper interpretation of such a situation.