List of Illustrations; Series Editor’s Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Poetics of Translation: Dante, Gœthe and the Paideia; 2. Pythagorean Mysticism / Democritean Wisdom; 3. The Physical Cosmos: Aristotelian Dialectics; 4. A Comedy of Ethics: From Plato to Christian Asceticism (Via Rembrandt); 5. Mystic Paths, Inward Turns; 6. Pascal’s Miraculous Tongue; 7. Spinoza, Leibniz, or a World “Less Exquisitely Organized”; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index.