Table of Contents
Volume 6, Number 11 · June 23, 1966
Ernst Gombrich, Art at the End of its Tether 
Man's Range for Chaos: Biology, Behavior and the Arts by Morse Peckham
Joseph M. Kraft, Politics in Vietnam
Gavin de Beer, At the Edge of Science
The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin, by June Goodfield
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Changing the Guard
African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkrumah's Chief of Staff by Major-General H.T. Alexander
Hans J. Morgenthau, Room at the Top
Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam by Richard Goodwin
R.J.C. Atkinson, Stonehenge in Darkness
Stonehenge Decoded by Gerald S. Hawkins, in collaboration with John B. White
Paul de Man, The Literature of Nihilism
The Artist's Journey into the Interior and Other Essays by Erich Heller
The German Tradition in Literature 1871-1945 by Ronald Gray
Frederick C. Crews, Literature on the Couch
The Quest for Love by David Holbrook
Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare by Norman N. Holland
Roger Shattuck, Fiction à la Mode
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
Letters
David Hawkins, A Psychological Issue
Harry G. Johnson, George Lichtheim, Not an Indian
Contributors
Frederick Crews's most recent book is Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (December 2007)
Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)