7 Myth, Law, and Life in Common

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Natural in the Human 1
5. Part I Nature in Language
6. 1 God, Nature, and Man in Language 13
7. 2 Naming Beauty 33
8. 3 The Life and Afterlife of Words 45
9. 4 The Life of Forms 65
10. Part II Life and Fate
11. 5 The Guilt and Innocence of Life 87
12. 6 Fate, Redemption, and Hope in Love 101
13. 7 Myth, Law, and Life in Common 119
14. Part III Body and Corporeality
15. 8 The Language of the Body and the Body of Language 145
16. 9 Acting Naturally 164
17. Part IV Primal History
18. 10 “From the Pagan Context of Nature . . . into the Jewish Context of History” 187
19. 11 Matters of Memory 206
20. 12 First and Second Nature in Art 228
21. Part V The Image of the Contingent
22. 13 Distorted Life 251
23. Notes 281
24. Bibliography 311
25. Index 317