It represents the crossing of the two basic themes I have been working on for the past fifteen years. It would seem appropriate, in this foreign edition, to add a few comments on the theoretical background–the ideational context, as it were–from which the present work emerged. The adversary culture and the consumer society 276 The latest anti-humanism and the fate of the Renaissance-individualist conception of man 268Ģ. The inner life and something about Goethe (contemporary moods in West Germany) 244ġ. Politicisation of eroticism or ``sexualisation'' of politics? 230Ĥ. Neo-avant-gardism and LSD, the two latest drugs 213Ģ. Negation of the personality as a mystic cult 202Ģ. Man enjoying the orocess of self-liquidation 202ġ. The Frankfurt criticism of the conception of committed literature 173 Neo-Marxist nihilism and literary leftism 158ģ. Art as a means of expelling the personality from itself 142Ģ. The revolt Aagainst the principium individuationis 142ġ. Revolt in the depths of despair 142Ĭhapter one. PART TWO: From the end of utopia to the beginning of anti-utopia Marcuse on the left-wing Freudian myth of man 128ģ. Covetous man (Left-wing Freudianism and the consumer society) 117Ģ. Breaking into the pre-individualist state 117ġ. The suicide of art: A model for individual emulation 111Ĭhapter two. The fall of the individual and western culture 102ģ.
Between individuality and its negation 94Ģ.
The bourgeois individual after the decline of the West 94ġ. Moral aestheticism and aestheticising moralism 85Ĭhapter one. The individual stripped of personality 63ģ. The death of god and the agony of man 63ġ. Faustian man in 'The decline of the West 49Ĭhapter two. The bourgeois individual and the bankruptcy of traditional ideals 38Ģ. Prospects and limits of the Faustian soul 38ġ. PART ONE: From 'The decline of the West' to 'The last utopia'Ĭhapter one. English translation by Laura Beraha and Alex Miller (under the title: Myth, philosophy, avant-gardism).
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