Contents

Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

1. What Is Culture?

2. Culture and Cult

3. Enlightenment

4. The Aesthetic Gaze

5. Romanticism

6. Fantasy, Imagination and the Salesman

7. Modernism

8. Avant-garde and Kitsch

9. Surface and Surfeit

10. Yoofanasia

11. Idle Hands

12. The Devil’s Work

13. Conclusions

Quite Interesting Bibliography

Footnotes