| Editor's Introduction | I |
| Part Six. Revolution | |
| 1. Apostasy | 31 |
| §1. The Rearticulation of the Christian Era | 31 |
| §2. Bossuet and Voltaire | 34 |
| a. Bossuet's Universal History | |
| b. Secularized History | |
| c. The Relevance of Rome | |
| d. Voltaire's Universal History | |
| §3. The Reconstruction of Historical Meaning | 40 |
| The Esprit Humain as the Object of History | |
| b. Intramundane Sacred History | |
| c. The Structure of Intramundane History | |
| §4. The Continuity of Christian with Intramundane Problems | 44 |
| a. The Variations of Intramundane History | |
| b. Bossuet's Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes | |
| c. The Libre Examen | |
| d. Bossuet's Conférence avec M. Claude | |
| §5. The Dynamics of Secularization | 51 |
| a. The Dissociation of the Western Universalisms | |
| b. The Phases of Dissociation | |
| c. First and Second Phases: Spiritual Destruction and Respiritualization | |
| d. Third Phase: The Authority of the Church and the Christian Symbols | |
| §6. Voltaire's Attack | 57 |
| a. The Éléments de philosophie de Newton | |
| b. God and the Soul | |
| c. The Foundation of Ethics | |
| d. The Meaning of Reason | |
| e. Philosophical Sectarianism | |
| f. The Realm between the Spirits | |
| g. Compassion | |
| 2. The Schismatic Nations | 71 |
| §1. The Vacuum of Reason | 71 |
| §2. The Irritation of Parochialism | 72 |
| §3. The Schismatic Cosmion | 73 |
| a. The Spiritual Closure of the National Cosmion | |
| b. The French Case | |
| c. The English Case | |
| d. The German Case | |
| §4. The Time Structure of the Closing Process | 78 |
| a. The Problem of Closure | |
| b. The English-French Time Structure | |
| c. The French-German Time Structure | |
| d. The Results | |
| 3. Giambattista Vico-- La scienza nuova | 82 |
| §1. Italian Politics | 82 |
| a. City-State and National State | |
| b. Italian "Decadence" | |
| c. Municipalization and Emigration | |
| §2. The Work of Vico | 85 |
| a. Style and Mode Expression | |
| b. The Secularist Interpretation | |
| c. The Meditative Character of the Work | |
| d. The Phases of the Meditation | |
| §3. The Idea of a New Science | 93 |
| a. Ambivalence and Pathos | |
| b. Reversal of the Apostatic Movement | |
| §4. The Steps of the Meditation | 96 |
| a. Verum Est Factum | |
| b. The Philological Origin | |
| c. The Conjecture on the Pagan Level | |
| d. The Christian Level | |
| e. Neoplatonism | |
| §5. The Continuum of Western Ideas | 102 |
| §6. The Model of Nature | 104 |
| a. The Metaphysical Point and the Conatus | |
| b. The Systematic Function of the Model | |
| c. The Attack on Phenomenalism | |
| d. The Attack on the Cogito | |
| e. The Transfer of the Model to History | |
| §7. The Mondo Civile | 109 |
| a. The Science of History | |
| b. Vico's Anthropology | |
| c. The Autonomy of the Spirit | |
| d. The Recursus | |
| §8. Recursus and Ricorso | 116 |
| a. The Problem in the Diritto universale | |
| b. The Problem in the "First" Scienza nuova | |
| c. The Problem in the "Third" Scienza nuova | |
| d. Vico and Saint Augustine | |
| §9. The Storia Eterna Ideale | |
| a. Formulation of the Principle | |
| b. The Historicity of the Mind | |
| c. Providential contemplation | 126 |
| §10. The Senso Commune | 132 |
| a. Positive Definitions | |
| b. Critical Clarification | |
| c. History and Philosophy of Humanity | |
| §11. The Political Structure of the Corso | 137 |
| a. Stato Ferino and Divine Age | |
| b. The Heroic Age | |
| c. The Human Age | |
| d. Summarizing Characterization of the Corso | |
| e. The Mente Eroica | |
| §12. Conclusion | 144 |
| 4. The English Quest for the Concrete | 149 |
| §1. The Model Polity | 150 |
| a. A Stagnant Population | |
| b. Gin | |
| c. The Purge of the Church | |
| d. Warburton's Political Sermons | |
| e. The Gladstone-Newman Controversy | |
| §2. The Loss of the Concrete | 163 |
| a. Materialization of the External World | |
| b. Psychologization of the Self | |
| c. Culverwel's Reason | |
| d. Whichcote's Reason | |
| e. Locke's Reason | |
| f. Locke's Reasonableness of Christianity | |
| Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious | |
| §3. Absolute Space and Relativity | 183 |
| a. Relativity from Copernicus to Leibnitz | |
| b. Galileo's Conflict with the Inquisition | |
| c. Newton's Assumption of Absolute Space | |
| d. The Influence of Henry More | |
| e. Berkeley's Psychological Criticism | |
| f. The Deadlock | |
| g. Leibniz | |
| h. The Problem of the Rotating Star | |
| i Science, Power, and Magic | |
| j. The Pathos of Science and Spiritual Eunuchs | |
| Index | 217 |
