A compass in a moving world
Many lines of descent
Theoria as practical philosophy
The sage is wise only in theory
Variations and discontinuities: aesthetic
How art found theory
Philosophy before the arts
The rarity of theory
On the history of film theory
Genres of theory
Excursus: Ricciotto Canudo and the aesthetic discourse
On the way to languge
The travels of formalism
An uncertain and irrational art
A small history of structuralism
After the long eclipse
An object, a method, a domain
A care for the claims of theory
The sense of an ending
"Suddenly, an age of theory"
The fifth element
"A struggle without end, exterior and interior"
Becoming a subject in theory.