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Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents
Preface

I. Apocalypse:
The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind
2. Daphne, or Metamorphosis
3· My Georgics:
A Palinode in Praise of Work
4· Metamorphoses II:
Actaeon
5· The Prophetic Tradition
6. The Apocalypse of Islam
7· Philosophy and Prophecy:
Spinoza's Hermeneutics
8. The Turn to Spinoza
9· Metamorphoses III:
The Divine Narcissus
IO. Revisioning Historical Identities
II. Dionysus in I990

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 5 October 1992
      ISBN-13 9780520078284
      978-0520078284
      ISBN-10 0520078284
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      History: theory and methods Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

      Table of Contents
      Preface

      I. Apocalypse:
      The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind
      2. Daphne, or Metamorphosis
      3· My Georgics:
      A Palinode in Praise of Work
      4· Metamorphoses II:
      Actaeon
      5· The Prophetic Tradition
      6. The Apocalypse of Islam
      7· Philosophy and Prophecy:
      Spinoza's Hermeneutics
      8. The Turn to Spinoza
      9· Metamorphoses III:
      The Divine Narcissus
      IO. Revisioning Historical Identities
      II. Dionysus in I990

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