Art, messianism, and crime: A study of antinomianism in modern literature and lives

by Stoddard Martin

Chapters 1. Introductory, The Artist-Manque; 2. Marcuse's 'Erotic Reality'; 3. Sade's Cult of Evil; 4. Wilde's Antinomian Aesthetic; 5. Political Interlude, Anarchism; 6. 'Power' and the Occult; 7. Hitler; 8. Sixties' Zeitgeist I, Mysticism; 9 Sixties' Zeitgeist II, Cruelty; 10. Sixties' Zeitgeist III, Jim Morrison; 11. The Manson Phenomenon; 12. Concluding, The 'Soul of Man'.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Chris Balz · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent study of the problems of the "artiste manque".