Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. About the Authors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. The Recovery of the Public World 17
7. Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Worldviews and Cultural Policies
8. Culture and Empire: Patronage and Propaganda in the Augustan Age 41
9. Medieval Worldviews and Cultural Policies 59
10. Aesthetic Monumentality, Technology, and the Renaissance Origins of Modern Picturing 73
11. Modern Worldviews and Cultural Policies
12. Romanticism and the Critique of Culture: The Example of Coleridge's “On the Prometheus of Aeschylus”* 95
13. The Worldview of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy 107
14. The Role of Communications Policy in Modern Culture 119
15. Postmodern Worldviews and Cultural Policies
16. Iran: Reaction and Revolution in the Postmodern Period 139
17. Modernity, Postmodernity, and Culture 163
18. The Artist and Postmodern Cultural Policies 173
19. Index 191
20. Also published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for The Calgary Institute for the Humanities 195