Tabla de Contenidos: “…Clark -- On the problem of the autonomy of art in bourgeois society / Peter Bürger -- Aesthetics and politics / Fredric Jameson -- Art, autonomy and mass culture / Theodor Adorno -- On non-objective painting / Bertolt Brecht -- Abstract expressionism, weapon of the cold war / Eva Cockcroft…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”