In this issue:

Dossier: Romantic bureaucracy
Alexander Kojève’s post-historical wisdom
– Boris Groys

Contents: 196 Contents
– Radical Philosophy

Commentary: Why I write such excellent songs
David Bowie, 1947–2016
– Keith Ansell-Pearson

Dossier: Introduction
– Peter Osborne

Dossier: Bildung and strategy
The fate of the ‘beautiful sciences’
– Howard Caygill

Dossier: Genre without genre
Romanticism, the novel and the new
– David Cunningham

Reviews: 196 Reviews – Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Claudia Aradau, Mark Bould, Malise Rosbech, Hammam Aldouri, Stephen Howard, Matthew Hyland, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Thomas Klikauer

Conference Report: Benjamin in Ramallah
– Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier