CONTENTS
- Divergent modes of being in the history of the Western world
- An absurd world
- The bourgeois masses
- The elites
- Manufacturing illusions
- Guilt-ridden shame
- Authenticity versus inauthenticity
- Proust: the anthropologist of a tribe
- The spirit of an era
- The spirit of an era, and its understanding of equality
- The spirit of an era, and the question of vices
- The bastion of the aristocracy, and its vulnerabilities
- High society, and the phenomenon of snobbery
- The bastion of the aristocracy vis-à-vis other elite groups
- High society vis-à-vis the commoners
- The fall of the aristocratic milieu
- Resurrecting the aristocratic ideal
- The Proustian versus the Sartrean worldview – some introductory remarks
- The question of time, history, and memory
- Of things in the world
- Of the arts
- Of churches and church buildings
- For a unitary Western tradition
- A case of conflicting humanisms
- Sartrean ethics
- The carriers of salvation (as opposed to an aristocratic resurrection)
- Sartrean politics: exploding the system
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