A warning beforehand - Prologue

Part I: In Quest of the Formula of Beauty

In the eye of the beholder? - 1

Beauty – only average? - 2

Beauty in the brain - 3

How much fat does the formula of beauty contain? - 4

Part II: Why beauty exists

Sex, lies, and instant glue - 5

Sapiens - once more the exception? - 6

Beauty - only a prejudice? - 7

Beautiful theories? - 8

Part III: Beautiful and good

Fortune favours the pretty - 9

Capitalism of beauty - 10

Self-deception as a program? - 11

Pretty, smart and happy? - 12

Beauty, love and prostitution - 13

Part IV: And deliver us from beauty?

Extension of the problem zones - 14
Beauty in times of its feasibility - 15

How to cope with beauty - 16