Apocalypse and/or metamorphosis
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.
Print Book, English, ©1991
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., ©1991
ix, 200 pages ; 22 cm
9780520072985, 9780520078284, 0520072987, 0520078284
181581421
1. 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 of Spinoza
9. Metamorphoses III: the divine Narcissus
10. Revisioning historical identities
11. Dionysus in 1990