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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
    Publication Date: 05/10/1992
    ISBN13: 9780520078284, 978-0520078284
    ISBN10: 0520078284
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    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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