Part I. The Body and Society: 1. Sexuality and solitude Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett; 2. A short history of body consciousness Jean Starobinski; 3. The sacred and the body social in sixteenth-century Lyon Natalie Zemon Davis; Part II. The Nature of Acting: 4. Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting Victor Turner; 5. The actor as a celebrity Richard Gilman; Part III. How form in Art is Related to Culture: 6. The breaking of form Harold Bloom; 7. The 'I' as an other in poetry Stephen Spender; 8. Music does not flow: constant and variable elements in music's patterning Virgil Thomson; Part IV. Studies in Cultural History: 9. The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age Frances Yates; 10. Triumph or downfall of civil society Alain Touraine.