 Though Wundt participated actively in labor politics in his early years at Heidelberg, even being elected to the Baden parliament, he steadily drifted rightwards, eventually being persuaded by his “virulently  anti-Semitic”[9]  son, Max, a historian of philosophy, to join the ultranationalist Deutsche Philosophische Gesellschaft, after  1917.[10]  It is hard to ignore Wundt’s unattractive “application” of his late social and cultural psychology to the tendentious critique of Germany’s enemies (Kusch 1995: 220–1). Nevertheless, his drive and unflagging intellectual advocacy will arouse admiration in some: even at age 80, he remained involved in academic  controversy.[11]  But let us consider the man through his work.