Candor and perversion: literature, education and the arts

Nineteen theses on literature; Perplexing lessos: Is there a core tradition in the humanities?; American education against itself; Education: Higher and lower; How to read a book; The spiritual in art; How we think at the movies; Life before langauge: Nathalie Sarraute; Secong thoughts on a wooden horse: Michel Foucault; Art at first sight; Radical skepticism and how we got here; From The Swiss Family robinson to Narrtus Interruptus; Teaching the unteachable; Kipling, Proust, Nietzsche and Co.; The Alibi of art; The social institutions of modern art; Manet, the missing link; Unlikely pen pals: George Sand and Gustave Flaubert; Sara Bernhardt, thesacred monster; Yuppies along the Seine: The Impressionists; Living by words: Mallarmé; The present place of futurism; Early Picasso: Mailer´s version; Captions of Illustrations?: Braque´s handbook; The sotory of Hans/Jean/Kaspar Arp; Cocteau, native son of Paris; Confidence man: Marcel Duchamp; The Last Cause; Form aestheticism to fascism: An american roman-fleuvre; The Great American Thing: O´Keeffe and Stieglitz; Candor and perversion: Man Ray; Born-again afircan: Léopold Senghor; A masterpice form Senegal; Blank and white; Illuminating Octavio Paz; Arthur Miller´s account of himslef; Naipaul on the american south; A poet´s stories: W.S. Merwin; Quantum tales: Renata Adler; Scandal and stereotypes on Broadway: The new puritanism