Preface / Philipp Demandt
Ut pictura philosophia : portrait of Magritte as a philosopher / Didier Ottinger
La Ligne de vie I (1938 lecture) / René Magritte
Words, shadows, flames, curtains, fragments : Magritte and the founding myths of painting / Didier Ottinger
From arbitrary signs to elective affinities : painting against the imaginary bounds of the imagination / Klaus Speidel
Seeing is believing : René Magritte and the invention of art / Jan Blanc
The painter-king / Barbara Cassin
Magritte and his curtains / Victor I. Stoichita
Beauty is a formal problem / Jacqueline Lichtenstein
From the image-screen to the art of the problem / Michel Draguet.
