Author(s): Wyndham Lewis (auth.), Julian Symons (ed.)
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 380
City: London
Introduction
Part One PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY
from BLAST 2
A Super-Krupp —or War’s End
Letters to Ezra Pound
The Code of a Herdsman
from BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING
First Meeting with James Joyce
An ‘Age Group’ Meets Itself
Our Lady of the Sleeping Cars
from THE ART OF BEING RULED
‘Bolshevism and the West’
Violence and ‘Kindliness’: Mr Bernard Shaw and Mr Bertrand Russell
Vegetarianism and Capital Punishment
The Contemporary Man ‘Expresses His Personality’
The Matrnarchate and Feminine Ascendency
The Piecemealing of the Personality
The Physiological Norm and the ‘Vicious’
The Intolerant Tradition of the Anglo-Saxon
The Taboo on Generic Terms, and the Abstract
Creature of Democracy
‘Call Yourself a Man!’
The Great Development of Associational Life
How Much Truth Does a Man Require?
Different Magics
The Politics of the Intellect
from THE LION AND THE FOX
Machiavelli in Elizabethan Drama
Othello as the Typical Colossus
Race and the Person
from PALEFACE
A Final Proposal:
A Model ‘Melting-Pot’
from THE JEWS: ARE THEY HUMAN?
A New Deal for the Jew
from THE HITLER CULT
Sovereign-Nationhood
from AMERICA AND COSMIC MAN
The Case Against Roots
Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man
Part Two ART AND LITERATURE
from THE CALIPH'S DESIGN
The Bull Sounds
The Politician’s Apathy
How the Fact ot Style Obstructs
Where the Painter Would Benefit
The Public Chosen
Archttecture
Child Art and the Naif
Machinery and Lions
The Artist’s Luck
After Abstract Art
from THE DEMON OF PROGRESS IN THE ARTS
The Cause of the Heterogeneity in the Fine Arts
in Our Time
Amateur Artists
Those who are Accessible to an Extremist Glamour
There 1s a Limit, beyond which there is Nothing
The Ability to See the Limit
“The Unknown Political Prisoner’ and After
The ‘Progressive’ Slave
from TIME AND WESTERN MAN
An Analysis ot the Mind of James Joyce
from MEN WITHOUT ART
Emest Hemingway: The ‘Dumb Ox’
The Greatest Satire 1s
Non-Moral
Conclusion
from THE WRITER AND THE ABSOLUTE
Twentieth Century Nihilism
Part Three IMAGINATIVE WRITING
from THE WILD BODY
Bestre
from TARR
Part I, Chapter 2
Part VII, Chapter 2
from CHILDERMASS
from THE APES OF GOD
The Split-Man
from SNOOTY BARONET
The Hatter’s Automaton
from THE REVENGE FOR LOVE
from Chapter 2, Part VI
from Chapter 8, Part VII
The Sea-Mists of the Winter
from SELF CONDEMNED
Twenty-five Feet by Twelve
from THE HUMAN AGE
Infernal Preliminary
List of Works
Further Reading
