Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface vii
5. List of Abbreviations viii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 A Poetics of Translation: Dante, Goethe and the Paideia 16
8. 2 Pythagorean Mysticism / Democritean Wisdom 44
9. 3 The Physical Cosmos: Aristotelian Dialectics 76
10. 4 From the Cradle to the Cave: A Comedy of Ethics from Plato to Christian Asceticism (via Rembrandt) 110
11. 5 Mystic Paths, Inward Turns 138
12. 6 Pascal’s Miraculous Tongue 194
13. 7 Spinoza, Leibniz or a World ‘less exquisitely organized’ 220
14. Acknowledgements 265
15. Bibliography 267
16. Index 286