Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Translator's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PROLOGUE Flaubert, of Flaubert Analyst: A Reading of Sentimental Education -- Places, investments, displacements -- The question of inheritance -- Necessary accidents -- The power of writing -- Flaubert's formula -- Appendix 1: Summary of Sentimental Education -- Appendix 2: Four Readings of Sentimental Education -- Appendix 3: The Paris of Sentimental Education -- PART I: Three States of the Field -- 1 The Conquest of Autonomy: The Critical Phase in the Emergence of the Field -- A structural subordination -- Bohemia and the invention of an art of living -- The rupture with the 'bourgeois' -- Baudelaire the founder -- The first calls to order -- A position to be made -- The double rupture -- An economic world turned upside down -- Positions and dispositions -- Flaubert's point of view -- Flaubert and 'realism' -- 'Write the mediocre well' -- Return to Sentimental Education -- The imposition of form -- The invention of the 'pure' aesthetic -- The ethical conditions of the aesthetic revolution -- 2 The Emergence of a Dualist Structure -- The particularities of genres -- Differentiation of genres and unification of the field -- Art and money -- The dialectic of distinction -- Specific revolutions and external changes -- The invention of the intellectual -- The exchanges between painters and writers -- For form -- 3 The Market for Symbolic Goods -- Two economic logics -- Two modes of ageing -- Leave a mark -- The logic of change -- Homologies and the effect of pre-established harmony -- The production of belief -- PART II: Foundations of a Science of Works of Art -- 1 Questions of Method -- A new scientific spirit -- Literary doxa and resistance to objectification -- The 'original project', founding myth.

Thersites' viewpoint and the false rupture -- The space of points of view -- Bypassing the alternatives -- To objectify the subject of objectification -- Appendix The Total Intellectual and the Illusion of the Omnipotence of Thought -- 2 The Author's Point of View: Some General Properties of Fields of Cultural Production -- The literary field in the field of power -- The nomos and the question of boundaries -- The illusio and the work of art as fetish -- Position, disposition and position-taking -- The space of possibles -- Structure and change: internal struggles and permanent revolution -- Reflexivity and 'naiveté' -- Supply and demand -- Internal struggles and external sanctions -- The meeting of two histories -- The constructed trajectory -- The habitus and the possibles -- The dialectic of positions and dispositions -- Formation and dissolution of groups -- A transcendence of institution -- 'The impious dismantling of the fiction' -- Appendix Field Effect and Forms of Conservatism -- PART III: To Understand Understanding -- 1 The Historical Genesis of the Pure Aesthetic -- Analysis of essence and illusion of the absolute -- Historical anamnesis and the return of the repressed -- Historical categories of artistic perception -- The conditions of pure reading -- Poverty of ahistoricism -- Double historicization -- 2 The Social Genesis of the Eye -- The Quattrocento eye -- The foundation of the charismatic illusion -- 3 A Theory of Reading in Practice -- A reflecting story -- Time of reading and reading of time -- DA CAPO Illusion and the Illusio -- POSTSCRIPT For a Corporatism of the Universal -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- End User License Agreement.

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