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 full of parallels and influences as to seem not just...