The public problem -- The public domain -- Roles -- The public world of the ancien regime -- The audience: a gathering of strangers -- Public roles -- Public and private -- Man as actor -- The turmoil of public life in the 19th century -- The impact of industrial capitalism on public life -- Personality in public -- The public men of the 19th century -- Collective personality -- The intimate society -- The end of public culture -- Charisma becomes uncivilized -- Community becomes uncivilized -- The actor deprived of his art -- The tyrannies of intimacy.