Frontmatter -- General Table of Contents -- Table of contents: Volume I -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Anthropological and historical sciences -- Chapter I. Social and cultural anthropology / Freedman, Maurice -- Chapter II. Archaeology and prehistory / Laet, Sigfried J. De -- Chapter III. History / Barraclough, Geoffrey -- 2. Aesthetics and the sciences of art -- Foreword -- Chapter IV. Art and the science of art today -- SECTION ONE: THE SITUATION AND MEANING OF ART TODAY -- A. In the Western countries / Dufrenne, Mikel -- B. In the Socialist countries / Köpeczi, Béla -- C. In the non-Western countries / Dufrenne, Mikel -- SECTION TWO: THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCENE -- SECTION THREE: THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES -- 1. The historical approach / Köpeczi, Béla -- 2. The comparative approach / Étiemble, René -- 3. The sociological approach / Leenhardt, Jacques -- 4. The experimental approach / Francés, Robert -- 5. The psychological approach / Dufrenne, Mikel / Wellek, Albert / Baudinet, Marie-José -- 6. The psychoanalytical approach / Lyotard, Jean-François -- 7. The anthropological approach / Gerbrands, A. A. -- 8. The semiotic approach / Marin, Louis -- 9. The informational approach / Moles, Abraham A. -- CONCLUSION / Dufrenne, Mikel -- Chapter V. Contemporary study of the principal problems in aesthetics and the various arts -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: THE STUDY OF GENERAL PROBLEMS -- A. Artistic creation / Dufrenne, Mikel -- B. Reception of the work of art / Leenhardt, Jacques -- C. Problems of aesthetic values / Dufrenne, Mikel -- SECTION TWO: THE STUDY OF THE VARIOUS ARTS -- Introduction -- I. Visual arts / Argan, Giulio Carlo -- II. Literature / Starobinski, Jean -- III. Music / Patisca, Claude V. -- IV. The dramatic arts / Veinstein, André -- V. The art of cinema / Bettetini, Gianfranco -- VI. Architecture and town-planning / Choay, Françoise -- VII . The arts of information and the mass media / Dörfles, Gillo -- CONCLUSION / Dufrenne, Mikel -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANNEX