Lewis, Wyndham - Sue Ellen Campbell (essay date 1988)
Sue Ellen Campbell (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: “The Enemy Versus the Zeitgeist: Cultural Criticism,” in The Enemy Opposite: The Outlaw Criticism of Wyndham Lewis, Ohio University Press, 1988, pp. 165-90.
[In the following essay, Campbell identifies key philosophical influences on Lewis's critical theories, fiction, and nonfiction, including Oswald Spengler, Albert Einstein, and Julien Benda.]
THE ENEMY VERSUS MOSZKOWSKI
To explain his temerity in dealing with matters outside the arts, Lewis writes: “It has been suggested … that I should be better advised to ignore such things [as mathematical physics], and only attend to what happens in my own field. Now that I should be delighted to do if these different worlds of physics, philosophy, politics and art were (as, according to my view, they should be) rigidly separated” (TWM 9-10). But in the time-cult, of course, these worlds are not distinct; in fact, they are so...
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