Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. 'Immaterial pleasure houses': the initial aesthetic dilemma
2. 'A more dream-heavy hour': medievalist and progressive beginnings
3. 'Pedantry and hysteria': contemporary political problems
4. 'A certain discipline': radical conservative solutions
5. 'A particularly lively wheel': cyclic views emerge
6. 'Our own image': the example of Asian and non-Western cultures
7. In 'the grip of the ... vortex': the proof of Post-Impressionist art
8. The 'cycle dance': cyclic history arrives
9. 'The nightmare' and beyond: World War I and mature cyclic theories
Conclusion
Notes
Index.
