The Art of Being Ruled

About this eBook

Author

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

Title

The art of being ruled

Original Publication

London: Chatto and Windus, 1926.

Credits

Sean (@parchmentglow)

Language

English

LoC Class

HN: Social sciences: Social history and conditions, Social problems

Subject

Social problems

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79890

Release Date

November 1, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ART OF BEING RULED
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.PART I REVOLUTION AND PROGRESS
5. 5.CHAPTER I REVOLUTION
6. 6.CHAPTER II REVOLUTION ROOTED IN THE TECHNIQUE OF INDUSTRY
7. 7.CHAPTER III CREATIVE REVOLUTION AND DESTRUCTIVE REVOLUTION
8. 8.CHAPTER IV THE PHANTOM MAN OF DEMOCRATIC ENLIGHTENMENT
9. 9.CHAPTER V THE OPPRESSIVE RESPECTABILITY OF ‘REVOLUTION’
10. 10.CHAPTER VI THE NON-IMPERSONALITY OF SCIENCE
11. 11.PART II AGRICULTURAL THOUGHT AND INDUSTRIAL THOUGHT
12. 12.CHAPTER I ‘BOLSHEVISM AND THE WEST’
13. 13.CHAPTER II DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE YAHOO
14. 14.CHAPTER III VIOLENCE AND ‘KINDLINESS’: MR. BERNARD SHAW AND MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL
15. 15.CHAPTER IV VEGETARIANISM AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
16. 16.PART III THE ‘SMALL MAN’
17. 17.CHAPTER I THE TWO GREAT RIVAL POLITICAL PRINCIPLES TO-DAY: LIBERALIST DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITY
18. 18.CHAPTER II THE DEMOCRATIC STATE AND ITS MONOPOLY OF INDIRECTNESS
19. 19.CHAPTER III NO END OF THE WORLD IN SOCIAL REVOLUTION
20. 20.CHAPTER IV THE DOCTRINE OF WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS ORIGINATES IN THE PESSIMISM OF PHILOSOPHY
21. 21.CHAPTER V THE VULGARIZATION OF DISGUST
22. 22.CHAPTER VI BOLSHEVIK ‘WILL TO POWER’
23. 23.CHAPTER VII THE RULER AND THE RULED
24. 24.CHAPTER VIII THE EUROPEAN’S PHYSICAL LIBERTY
25. 25.PART IV VULGARIZATION AND POLITICAL DECAY
26. 26.CHAPTER I THE COMPETITION OF THE ‘SMALL MAN’
27. 27.CHAPTER II THE DEMOCRATIC EDUCATIONALIST STATE
28. 28.CHAPTER III CAUSES OF EUROPEAN DECAY
29. 29.CHAPTER IV THE MISUSE OF THE INTELLECT
30. 30.CHAPTER V NIETZSCHE AS A VULGARIZER
31. 31.CHAPTER VI GEORGE SOREL
32. 32.PART V ‘NATURES’ AND ‘PUPPETS’
33. 33.CHAPTER I WHAT THE PUPPETS WANT
34. 34.CHAPTER II ‘LIBERTY’ IS DEAD
35. 35.CHAPTER III SUPER-FREEDOM OF THE REVOLUTIONARY RICH
36. 36.CHAPTER IV MILLIONAIRE SOCIETY
37. 37.CHAPTER V THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE LIFE
38. 38.CHAPTER VI THE CONTEMPORARY MAN ‘EXPRESSES HIS PERSONALITY’
39. 39.CHAPTER VII PEOPLE’S HAPPINESS FOUND IN TYPE-LIFE
40. 40.PART VI SUB PERSONA INFANTIS
41. 41.CHAPTER I THE ‘TRADER’ AND THE ‘ARTIST’
42. 42.CHAPTER II THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE SPECTATOR
43. 43.CHAPTER III ‘BUY ME AN AIR-BALL, PLEASE! ’
44. 44.CHAPTER IV THE CHILDREN OF PETER PAN
45. 45.PART VII THE FAMILY AND FEMINISM
46. 46.CHAPTER I WHY ‘SOCIALISM WISHES TO ABOLISH THE FAMILY’
47. 47.CHAPTER II MR. CHESTERTON’S CONCERN FOR THE FAMILY UNIT
48. 48.CHAPTER III ‘THE WOMAN’ PROUDHON’S ONLY REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY
49. 49.CHAPTER IV THE FAMILY AS AN OBSESSING MODEL
50. 50.CHAPTER V FOURIER’S THEORY OF GROUPS
51. 51.CHAPTER VI THE WAR OF ‘ONE HALF AGAINST THE OTHER’
52. 52.CHAPTER VII SCIENCE AND THE FEMININE
53. 53.CHAPTER VIII POSSIBILITIES OF BIOLOGIC TRANSFORMATION: AND LOCKE’S HUMANISM
54. 54.CHAPTER IX THE MEANING OF THE ‘SEX WAR’
55. 55.CHAPTER X THE MATRIARCHATE AND FEMININE ASCENDENCY
56. 56.CHAPTER XI THE PIECEMEALING OF THE PERSONALITY
57. 57.PART VIII THE ‘VICIOUS’ CIRCLE
58. 58.CHAPTER I THE PHYSIOLOGICAL NORM AND THE ‘VICIOUS’
59. 59.CHAPTER II THE INTOLERANT TRADITION OF THE ANGLO-SAXON
60. 60.CHAPTER III THE RÔLE OF INVERSION IN THE WAR ON THE INTELLECT
61. 61.CHAPTER IV THE ‘HOMO’ THE CHILD OF THE ‘SUFFRAGETTE’
62. 62.CHAPTER V GENIUS IN THE RÔLE OF CALIBAN
63. 63.CHAPTER VI THE TABOO ON GENERIC TERMS, AND THE ABSTRACT CREATURE OF DEMOCRACY
64. 64.CHAPTER VII SAMUEL BUTLER’S ‘LOVE,’ AND THE ROMANCE OF DESTRUCTION OF THE MAN OF SCIENCE
65. 65.CHAPTER VIII WHAT THE ANONYMITY OF SCIENCE COVERS
66. 66.CHAPTER IX THE PROS AND CONS OF DOMINY-ATION
67. 67.PART IX MAN AND SHAMAN
68. 68.CHAPTER I THE FEMININE CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM
69. 69.CHAPTER II THE PROPAGANDIST INDICTMENT OF THE FEMININE
70. 70.CHAPTER III ‘CALL YOURSELF A MAN!’
71. 71.CHAPTER IV THE POSITION OF THE CULT OF THE CHILD IN THE PRESENT SYSTEM
72. 72.CHAPTER V UNIVERSAL CHARACTER OF INVERSION
73. 73.CHAPTER VI THE TRANSFORMED SHAMAN
74. 74.CHAPTER VII THE ROMAN EXOLETOS
75. 75.CHAPTER VIII PAIDERASTIA IN THE GREEK WORLD
76. 76.PART X SOCIALIST THEORY
77. 77.CHAPTER I WHAT GENERAL TERM ARE WE TO USE IN DISCUSSING SOCIALIST THEORY?
78. 78.CHAPTER II THE CITY-STATE OF ANTIQUITY: WAR-LIKE IDEALS OF FRENCH SOCIALISM
79. 79.CHAPTER III THE WHOLE WORLD NOW FILLED WITH THE GLOOM OF THE PURITAN SOUL
80. 80.CHAPTER IV THE IDEA THAT HAUNTS ALL SOCIALIST THEORY
81. 81.CHAPTER V THE ‘NAPOLEONISM’ OF FOURIER, SAINT-SIMON, SOREL, ETC.
82. 82.PART XI PROUDHON AND ROUSSEAU
83. 83.CHAPTER I THE ANTAGONISM OF PROUDHON AND MARX
84. 84.CHAPTER II THE WAR BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT SOCIALISMS
85. 85.CHAPTER III PROUDHON’S ATTACK ON ROUSSEAU
86. 86.CHAPTER IV THE CHIEF REASON FOR THE HOSTILITY OF PROUDHON TO ROUSSEAU
87. 87.CHAPTER V THE SOCIABLE AND THE UNSOCIABLE MAN
88. 88.CHAPTER VI PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU’S FORECAST OF A COLLECTIVIST STATE, AND A PONS ASINORUM OF SOCIALIST THEORY
89. 89.CHAPTER VII THE FEDERATIVE PEASANT-SOCIALISM OF PROUDHON
90. 90.CHAPTER VIII ‘ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL IS GOOD’
91. 91.CHAPTER IX PROUDHON’S TABULATION OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
92. 92.CHAPTER X ROUSSEAU’S MYSTERIOUS POWER OF AWAKENING HOSTILITY
93. 93.CHAPTER XI ROUSSEAU’S THEORY OF THE ABDICATION OF LIBERTY
94. 94.CHAPTER XII FASCISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE
95. 95.CHAPTER XIII DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM AND THE CASTE COMMUNITY
96. 96.PART XII THE ‘INTELLECTUAL’
97. 97.CHAPTER I THE HYPNOTISM OF THE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL FASHION
98. 98.CHAPTER II FOURIER’S ‘INTELLECTUAL’ CONTRASTED WITH SOREL’S
99. 99.CHAPTER III THE GREAT GOD FLUX
100. 100.CHAPTER IV HATRED OF LANGUAGE AND THE BEHAVIORIST ‘WORD-HABIT’
101. 101.CHAPTER V FOUR PHASES IN ART AND SCIENCE OF THE WAR ON THE INTELLECT
102. 102.CHAPTER VI MR. JINGLE AND MR. BLOOM
103. 103.CHAPTER VII SKIN AND INTESTINES
104. 104.CHAPTER VIII SOREL, BERTH, ETC., BAD SYNDICALISTS AS REGARDS THEIR OWN SYNDIC
105. 105.PART XIII BEYOND ACTION AND REACTION
106. 106.CHAPTER I IS ‘EVERY ONE UNHAPPY IN THE MODERN WORLD’?
107. 107.CHAPTER II BEYOND ACTION AND REACTION
108. 108.CHAPTER III THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT OF ASSOCIATIONAL LIFE
109. 109.CHAPTER IV HOW MUCH TRUTH DOES A MAN REQUIRE?
110. 110.CHAPTER V DIFFERENT MAGICS
111. 111.CHAPTER VI THE POLITICS OF THE INTELLECT
112. 112.EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF ‘TARR’ AND OTHER WORKS BY WYNDHAM LEWIS
113. 113.Transcriber’s Notes

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