Art of Civilization

Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (1999), The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence (2006), and The Horizon: A History of our Infinite Longing (2011).

• Introduction.- 1 Birth of the Aesthetic.- 2 The Time of Images.- 3 Into the Time of Art.- 4 The Time of Makers.- 5 The Time of Work.- 6 The Time of Knowledge.- 7 The Time of Taste.- 8 The Time of Ideologies.- 9 The Time of Production.- 10 Triumph of the Aesthetic.