Modernity without Restraint: The Political Religions, the New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgements ix
• Editor's Introduction 1
• The Political Religions 19
• Contents 21
• Preface 23
• 1 - The Problem 27
• 2 - Akhenaton 34
• 3 - Hierarchy 42
• 4 - The Leviathan 53
• 5 - The Inner-Worldly Community 59
• 7 - Epilogue 70
• A Note on Sources 72
• The New Science of Politics - An Introduction 75
• Contents 77
• Foreword 79
• Acknowledgements 81
• Contents 83
• Introduction 88
• 1 - Representation and Existence 109
• 2 - Representation and Truth 129
• 3 - The Struggle for Representation in the Roman Empire 149
• 4 - Gnosticism the Nature of Modernity 175
• 5 - Gnostic Revolution the Puritan Case 196
• 6 - The End of Modernity 220
• Science, Politics, and Gnosticism - Two Essays 243
• Contents 245
• Preface to the American Edition 247
• Part I - Science, Politics, and Gnosticism 249
• 1 - Introduction 251
• 2 - Science, Politics, and Gnosticism 257
• 3 - The Murder of God 278
• 4 - Note on Hegel's “philosophy of World History” 290
• Part II - Ersatz Religion the Gnostic Mass Movements of Our Time 293
• Ersatz Religion 295
• Index 315

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