Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. 1. Introduction: The Two Classicisms 17
5. 2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate 53
6. 3. "The Opium of the People" 82
7. 4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals 113
8. 5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence 154
9. 6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus 184
10. 7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment 222
11. 8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism 249
12. 9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society 278
13. Index 299