Section four. The flight from freedom Chapter one. Man enjoying the orocess of self-liquidation 1. Negation of the personality as a mystic cult 2. Neo-avant-gardism and LSD, the two latest drugs Chapter two. Hedonism and cruelty 1. Non-restraint of urges 2. Politicisation of eroticism or ``sexualisation'' of politics? 3. The end of anti-utopia 4. The inner life and something about Goethe (contemporary moods in West…

PART TWO: From the end of utopia to the beginning of anti-utopia Section three. Revolt in the depths of despair Chapter one. The revolt Aagainst the principium individuationis 1. Art as a means of expelling the personality from itself 2. Neo-Marxist nihilism and literary leftism [Chapter two.] 3. The Frankfurt criticism of the conception of committed literature 4. The end of written literature?

Section two. Beyond despair Chapter one. The bourgeois individual after the decline of the West 1. Between individuality and its negation 2. The fall of the individual and western culture 3. The suicide of art: A model for individual emulation Chapter two. Breaking into the pre-individualist state 1. Covetous man (Left-wing Freudianism and the consumer society) 2. Marcuse on the left-wing Freudian myth of man 3…

Section one. Is man overcome? Chapter one. Prospects and limits of the Faustian soul 1. The bourgeois individual and the bankruptcy of traditional ideals 2. Faustian man in 'The decline of the West Chapter two. The death of god and the agony of man 1. The individual stripped of personality 2. The agony of man 3. Moral aestheticism and aestheticising moralism

A note from the author Preliminary remarks PART ONE: From 'The decline of the West' to 'The last utopia' Introduction. An eyewitness account

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