Contents
Preface
I. Philosophy and Culture
1. The Philosopher on Dover Beach
2. Spengler's Decline of the West
3. Understanding Hegel
4. Hegel as a Conservative Thinker
5. Gierke and the Corporate Person
6. Masaryk, Patočka and the Care of the Soul
7. Analytical Philosophy and Emotion
8. Modern Philosophy and the Neglect of Aesthetics
9. Aesthetic Experience and Culture
II. Critical Asides
10. Playwrights in Performance: Pinter, Stoppard and Beckett
11. Peter Fuller as Critic
12. Picasso and the Women
13. Beastly Bad Taste
14. Who Owns Art?
15. Radical Critics
16. The Photographic Surrogate
17. In Search of an Audience
III. The Political Dimension
18. The Idea of Progress
19. Man's Second Disobedience: Reflections on the French Revolution
20. Two Enlightened Irishmen
21. The Red and the Green
22. A Note on Bloch
23. The Liturgy of the Left
24. Ideologically Speaking
25. Sexual Morality and the Liberal Consensus
26. The Usurpation of Australia
27. The Left Establishment
28. In Defence of the Nation
Notes
Index