Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Artwork of the Future -- 1. Refounding Society -- 2. The Destination of Art -- 3. Prophets and Precursors: Paris 1830-1848 -- 4. Staging the Absolute -- Part II The Spiritual in Art -- 5. Religion and Art: Parsifal as Paradigm -- 6. The Symbolist Mystery -- 7. Gesamtkunstwerk and Avant-Garde -- 8. The Promised Land: Toward a Retotalized Theatre -- Part III The Sublime in Politics -- 9. National Regeneration -- 10. Art and Revolution: The Soviet Union -- 11. The Will to Power as Art: The Third Reich -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.