| 5 | A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR |
| 11 | PRELIMINARY REMARKS |
| PART ONE | |
| From The Decline of the West to The Last Utopia | |
| 27 | Introduction • AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT |
| Chapter One • Section One • IS MAN OVERCOME? • PROSPECTS AND LIMITS OF THE FAUSTIAN SOUL | |
| 38 | 1. The Bourgeois Individual and the Bankruptcy of Traditional Ideals |
| 49 | 2. Faustian Man in The Decline of the West |
| Chapter Two • THE DEATH OF GOD AND THE AGONY OF MAN | |
| 63 | 1. The Individual Stripped of Personality |
| 75 | 2. The Agony of Man |
| 85 | 3. Moral Aestheticism and Aestheticising Moralism |
| Chapter One • Section Two • BEYOND DESPAIR • THE BOURGEOIS INDIVIDUAL AFTER THE DECLINE OF THE WEST | |
| 94 | 1. Between Individuality and Its Negation |
| 102 | 2. The Fall of the Individual and Western Culture |
| 111 | 3. The Suicide of Art: A Model for Individual Emulation |
| Chapter Two • BREAKING INTO THE PRE-INDIVIDUALIST STATE | |
| 117 | 1. Covetous Man (Left-Wing Freudianism and the Consumer Society) |
| 128 | 2. Marcuse on the Left-Wing Freudian Myth of Man |
| 136 | 3. Fantasy Turned Against Individuality |
| 139 | CONCLUSION |
| PART TWO | |
| From the End of Utopia to the Beginning of Anti-Utopia | |
| Chapter One • Section Three • REVOLT IN THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR • THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PRINCIPIUM INDIVIDUATIONIS | |
| 142 | 1. Art as a Means of Expelling the Personality from Itself |
| 158 | 2. Neo-Marxist Nihilism and Literary Leftism |
| [chapter two-inserted by @LBiz] • [This chapter not in original—only one chapter in Section Three] | |
| 173 | 3. The Frankfurt Criticism of the Conception of Committed Literature |
| 183 | 4. The End of Written Literature? |
| 199 | Section Four • THE FLIGHT FROM FREEDOM |
| Chapter One • MAN ENJOYING THE PROCESS OF SELF-LIQUIDATION | |
| 202 | 1. Negation of the Personality as a Mystic Cult |
| 213 | 2. Neo-Avant-Gardism and LSD, the Two Latest Drugs |
| Chapter Two • HEDONISM AND CRUELTY | |
| 225 | 1. Non-Restraint of Urges |
| 230 | 2. Politicisation of Eroticism or “Sexualisation” of Politics? |
| 237 | 3. The End of Anti-Utopia |
| 244 | 4. The Inner Life and Something About Goethe (Contemporary Moods in West Germany) |
| 262 | 5. The Shade of the Grand Inquisitor |
| CONCLUSION | |
| 268 | 1. The Latest Anti-Humanism and the Fate of the Renaissance-Individualist Conception of Man |
| 276 | 2. The Adversary Culture and the Consumer Society |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 288 | The Author’s Works on the Topic of the Present Book |
| 290 | Quoted Literature |
| 293 | NAME INDEX |
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