Movements, Currents, Trends : Aspects of European Thought in the 19th and 20th Centuries Book

	Introduction	1
I	Romanticism	13
	Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads	18
	Wordsworth and the Lake Poets	29
	The Genie du Christianisme	31
	Preface to Cromwell	39
	Preface to Hernani	63
	The Salon of 1846: To the Bourgeois	65
	A Romantic Painter	68
	The Life and Work of Eugene Delacroix	69
	Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin	76
	Reflections	103
	Preface to The Latin Quarter	114
	P.S.: Germany	124
	Letter to Goethe	126
	Letter to Bettina Brentano	131
II	The Positivistic Reaction	135
	Realism and Naturalism	135
	Hopes and Desires of the Literary and Poetic Movement after the Revolution of 1830	141
	Letter to Madame Sand, concerning M. Courbet	147
	Realism	155
	Preface to Germinie Lacerteux	156
	The Principles of Historical Analysis	158
	The Experimental Novel	179
	Impressionism	194
	The Realists of the Salon of 1866	196
	The Impressionists	198
	Naturalism in the Salon	199
	The Influence of Impressionism upon the Climate	200
III	Consciousness and Confusion	203
	Eclecticism and Aestheticism	208
	Coleridge	208
	Art for Art's Sake--The Aesthetic Approach	214
	Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	217
	Symbolism	218
	Correspondances	220
	A Literary Manifesto	222
	Expressionism	227
	Concerning the Spiritual in Art	229
	Expressionism	243
	The Brothers Karamazoff, or The Downfall of Europe	248
	Cubism	254
	On Painting	255
	Futurism	264
	The Foundation of Futurism	265
	Dada	270
	Dada Manifesto	271
	Surrealism	278
	What is Surrealism?	279
	The Freudian Revolution	307
	Notes on a Possible Generalisation of the Theories of Freud	308
IV	Social Awareness: The Reintegration of Art	321
	The Nature of Gothic	326
	The Aims of Art	341
	Bauhaus	353
	The New Architecture and the Bauhaus	353
	Preface to New Country	363
	The Conflict	372
	On the Twentieth Anniversary of Soviet Power	374
	An Intellectual's Conversion	376
	Bread and Wine	382
V	A Literature of Disillusion: Anti-Utopia	397
	The Intellectual Crisis	403
	Preface to the 1946 Edition of Brave New World	408
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	415
	Socialist Realism	423
VI	A New Individualism	443
	Loneliness and Its Possibilities	447
	Advice to Nathaniel	456
	The Temptation of the West	458
	Introduction to Les Temps Modernes	464
	The Myth of Sisyphus	476
VII	A Supermarket Culture	489
	Man and Structure	496
	Madness and Civilization	500
	The Order of Things	504
	The Death of the Author	512
	Signatures	517
	A New Meaning of Meaning	520
VIII	It Takes All Kinds	533
	Asphyxiating Culture	539
	A Word About the Company of Raw Art	545
	Warhol: Art's Other Self	547
	John Baldessari	552
	A Thesis on Neo-Realism	555
	The Antiteater of R. W. Fassbinder	562
IX	Crosscurrents	569
	Among the Puritans	571
	The Laugh of the Medusa	574
	About Intellectuals	594
	Politics and Conscience	606
	Afterthought	619