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xix, 953 pages ; 25 cm |
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Symbolism. Imagination and nature: The revolt against nature. The priority of art / Oscar Wilde The unnatural will to art / Rainer Maria Rilke Art as individual idea / Pablo Picasso Art as the modern absolute / Andre Malraux -- The interaction of imagination and nature. The imaginative faculty and the function of art / Immanuel Kant The coalescence of mind and nature / Samuel Taylor Coleridge The penetration of things / Rainer Maria Rilke Concrete art / Hans Arp -- Symbolic nature. The eternal world of vision / William Blake Natural apocalypse / William Wordsworth The temple of nature / Charles Baudelaire Symbol as revelation / W.B. Yeats Eternal genesis / Paul Klee -- Imagination and thought: The state of doubt. Escape from ideas / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Negative capability / John Keats Art without conclusions / Gustave Flaubert -- The role of thought in poetry. Poetry, language, and thought / Paul Valery Pseudo-statements / I.A. Richards Sensibility and thought in metaphysical poetry / T.S. Eliot -- The state of affirmation. The acceptance of untruth / Friedrich Nietzsche The conquest of skepticism / W.B. Yeats -- The autonomy of art: The doctrine of purity. The didactic heresy / Charles Baudelaire The improvidence of art / Oscar Wilde Literature as music-drama / Richard Wagner Poetry as incantation / Stephane Mallarme Pure painting / Guillaume Apollinaire The non-picture / Marcel Duchamp -- The purification of fiction. The novel of consciousness / Virginia Woolf Style as absolute / Gustave Flaubert The pure novel / Andre Gide -- The objective artifact. The impersonality of art / Gustave Flaubert Artistic objectivity / Rainer Maria Rilke The objective correlative / T.S. Eliot Stasis and objective form / James Joyce Imagism / F.S. Flint and Ezra Pound Vorticism / Ezra Pound The value of materials / Jean Dubuffet -- Alogical structure. Language within language / Rainer Maria Rilke Plastic language / James Joyce A battle of images / Dylan Thomas The dynamics of metaphor / Hart Crane Multiple vision / Max Ernst The image in process / Sergei Eisenstein -- The morality of the artist. The courage of the artist / W.B. Yeats Art as ascetic religion / Gustave Flaubert The mission of the artist / Rainer Maria Rilke The artist as universal man / Paul Valery -- The art of life. The intensity of the moment / Walter Pater Artificial sensation / Joris-Karl Huysmans The reflexive image / Andre Gide The completed image / W.B. Yeats The aesthetic transformation of the earth / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The artist and society. An aesthetic mysticism / Gustave Flaubert Art as evidence of order / E.M. Forster The poet as revolutionary seer / Arthur Rimbaud Art as aristocratic mystery / Stephane Mallarme Poetry as a game of knowledge / W.H. Auden Poetry as rite / W.H. Auden Art as establisher of value / Wallace Stevens -- Realism: Objectivity. A realism of love / George Eliot False ideals exposed / Bernard Shaw Heroic honesty / Gustave Flaubert Dunghills as artistic material / Anton Chekhov -- Historical determinism. Society as historical organism / Honore de Balzac Art as historical product / Hippolyte Taine Shortcomings of Taine's theory / Gustave Flaubert Man as the creature of history / Leo Tolstoy -- Naturalistic determinism. Man as natural mechanism / Theodore Dreiser Clinical realism / Edmond and Jules de Goncourt The novel as social science / Emile Zola A naturalistic manifesto / August Strindberg The fad of naturalism / Edmond and Jules de Goncourt -- Melioristic realism. Art as ethical communication / Leo Tolstoy Prophetic realism / F.M. Dostoevsky The counter-religions of humanity and art / George Sand and Gustave Flaubert The counter-claims of content and form / H.G. Wells and Henry James -- Socialist realism. Social reality as class struggle / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The economic sources of consciousness / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The limitations of formalism / Leon Trotsky Historical truth in fiction / Georg Lukacs -- A new realism. Dehumanizing nature / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Nature: Struggle. The struggle for existence and natural selection / Charles Darwin The will in nature / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Organicism. Nature as organism / A.N. Whitehead Nature, man, and art The life of the hawthorn / Marcel Proust Natural joy / Andre Gide The death of Pan / D.H. Lawrence -- Mechanical force. The new multiverse / Henry Adams The joy of mechanical force / F.T. Marinetti The physics of human character / D.H. Lawrence -- Indeterminacy. Pluralism, pragmatism, and instrumental truth / William James Thought as a natural event / John Dewey Non-objective science and uncertainty / Werner Heisenberg -- Cultural history: Idealism. History as the self-realization of spirit History as human self-knowledge / Benedetto Croce -- Patterns of repetition. The three ages / Giambattista Vico Eternal recurrence / Friedrich Nietzsche The organic logic of history / Oswald Spengler -- History and imagination. History as symbolic reality / W.B. Yeats The triumph of art over history / Andre Malraux -- Religion and history. The historical meaning of Christianity / Nicolas Berdyaev -- Primitive survivals. The pre-human in the human / Charles Darwin The savage in the human / Sir James G. Frazer An archaic mystery / Henry Miller -- The unconscious: Unreason and reason. The demoniac / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Energy and reason / William Blake Will and knowledge / Arthur Schopenhauer Dionysos and Apollo / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Freudian unconscious. The structure of the unconscious / Sigmund Freud The instincts / Sigmund Freud The theory of dreams / Sigmund Freud The Oedipus complex / Sigmund Freud The origins of culture / Sigmund Freud The significance of Freud / Thomas Mann -- Liberation of the unconscious. A non-Freudian unconscious / D.H. Lawrence Dadaism / Tristan Tzara Surrealism / Andre Breton -- Myth: Myth in primitive thought. The king of the wood / Sir James G. Frazer The social psychology of myth / Bronislaw Malinowski The validity and form of mythical thought / Ernst Cassirer -- The collective unconscious. The collective unconscious and archetypes / C.G. Jung The psychological function of archetypes / C.G. Jung The principal archetypes / C.G. Jung -- Myth and literature. Modern mythology / Friedrich Schlegel Imaginative types / Victor Hugo The folk and the myth / Richard Wagner Visionary history / William Blake Myth as memory / Nicolas Berdyaev Psychoanalysis, the lived myth, and fiction / Thomas Mann Myth and literary classicism / T.S. Eliot -- Self-consciousness: Self-realization. An experiment in self-revelation / Jean-Jacques Rousseau The value of inconsistency / Andre Gide The living self / D.H. Lawrence The self and reality / Rainer Maria Rilke An Expressionist credo / Wassily Kandinsky -- The field of consciousness. Centers of consciousness / Henry James The stream of consciousness / William James Duration / Henri Bergson The recapturing of time / Marcel Proust -- The divided self. The ironic consciousness / Friedrich Schlegel The contrite consciousness / G.W.F. Hegel Alienation / Karl Marx Indirect communication / Soren Kierkegaard The masks of truth / Friedrich Nietzsche The anti-self / W.B. Yeats -- Freedom. Sympathy and asceticism / Arthur Schopenhauer Self-overcoming / Friedrich Nietzsche The perverse self / F.M |
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Dostoevsky -- Existence: The definition of existence. The individual and the crowd / Soren Kierkegaard Concrete existence and abstract system / Soren Kierkegaard The free thinker and the consensus / Friedrich Nietzsche Subjective will and objective truth / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Moments of existence. The fact of absurdity / Albert Camus Existence precedes essence / Jean-Paul Sartre Choice / Soren Kierkegaard Choice in a world without God / Jean-Paul Sartre Dread reveals nothing / Martin Heidegger Dread as education toward faith / Soren Kierkegaard Authenticity / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Value in existence. Absurd freedom / Albert Camus Commitment / Jean-Paul Sartre Faith by virtue of the absurd / Soren Kierkegaard The will to communicate / Karl Jaspers The common condition of man / Jean-Paul Sartre The primary words / Martin Buber The encompassing / Karl Jaspers Recollection of being / Martin Heidegger -- Faith: Christianity and Christendom. The Lord's prayer modernized / William Blake A hypocritical generation / Soren Kierkegaard Christ and the Grand Inquisitor -- Deified man. God in man / William Blake The death of God and the antichrist / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Poeticized religion. The finer spirit of knowledge / Matthew Arnold An allegory of human life / George Santayana -- Paganized Christianity. The resurrection of the body / D.H. Lawrence Salvation on earth / Andre Gide -- Orthodoxy. The errors of Andre Gide / Paul Claudel Man becomes God / Charles Baudelaire The errors of modern rationalism / Jacques Maritain The modern confusion of categories / T.E. Hulme The one and only God / Karl Barth -- The state of doubt. The meaning of meaninglessness / Paul Tillich |
| Notes |
Bibliographical footnotes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes |
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Aesthetics.
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History -- Philosophy -- Collected works
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History -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- Philosophy -- Collections
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Literature, Modern.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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History.
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Literature.
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Philosophy.
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| Author |
Feidelson, Charles.
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| LC no. |
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