Time and Western Man

by Lewis, Wyndham; Edwards, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780876858783
• ISBN10: 0876858787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Gingko Pr Inc

Summary

Essays discuss romance, Russian ballet, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, James Joyce, poetry, history, science, and time

Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Author's Preface
The Revolutionary Simpleton
Some of the Meanings of Romance	p. 3
The Principle of Advertisement and its Relation to Romance	p. 11
Romance and the Moralist Mind	p. 15
The Romance of Action	p. 20
Art Movements and the Mass Idea	p. 22
The Revolutionary Simpleton	p. 27
The Russian Ballet the Most Perfect Expression of the High-Bohemia	p. 30
The Principal "Revolutionary" Tendency Today that of a Return to Earlier Forms of Life	p. 34
Ezra Pound, etc	p. 37
Tests for Counterfeit in the Arts	p. 47
A Brief Account of the Child-Cult	p. 51
"Time"-Children. Miss Gertrude Stein and Miss Anita Loos	p. 53
The Prose-Song of Gertrude Stein	p. 59
The Secret of the Success of Charlie Chaplin	p. 64
A Man in Love with the Past	p. 67
An Analysis of the Mind of James Joyce	p. 73
Conclusion to Book One	p. 111
Appendix to Book One	p. 116
An Analysis of the Philosophy of Time
Preface to Book Two	p. 129
Professor Alexander and the Age of Time or Motion	p. 147
The Philosophy of the Instruments of Research	p. 152
Spatialization and Concreteness	p. 158
Pure Poetry and Pure Magic	p. 178
Romantic Art Called in to Assist in the Destruction of "Materialism"	p. 190
The Popular Counters, "Action" and "Life"	p. 201
"Time" upon the Social Plane and in Philosophy	p. 205
The Fusion of Idealism and Realism	p. 230
History as the Specific Art of the Time School	p. 245
The "Chronological" Philosophy of Spengler	p. 252
Conclusion of Analysis of Spengler	p. 287
The Subject Conceived as King of the Psychological World	p. 289
Science and Scepticism	p. 347
Belief and Reality	p. 351
God as Reality	p. 361
The Object Conceived as King of the Physical World	p. 381
Space and Time	p. 408
Conclusion	p. 421
Editorial Section
Afterword	p. 455
The Critical Reception of Time and Western Man	p. 509
Textual Appendix	p. 514
Two Cancelled Chapters	p. 529
Explanatory Notes	p. 567
Books by Wyndham Lewis	p. 602
Index	p. 605
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