TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Mythical Frontier.
Appropriating the Past.
The Hellenic Connection.
The Yearning for Roman Unity.
The War of the Roman Succession.
The Mythical Rupture. Symbiosis & Conflict.
Terms of Encounter.
The Orient of the Crusaders.
The Image of Heresy.
Attitudes Toward Arab Science.
A Mediterranean World.
The Genesis of Division.
Rift or Equilibrium in the Mediterranean?
Ottoman Threat & Closure.
Division in the Mediterranean: Rift in the Atlantic.
Awareness of Self and Images of the Other.
Evolving Views.
Observing the Other.
Machiavelli's political judgement.
Postel's Universal Integration.
Bodin & the sense of History.
The Faraway Orient.
The Classicist's Orient.
Voyages to the Orient.
On the Proper use of the Orient.
Leibniz's venture into the political.
The Orient of Enlightenment.
Islam & its Founding People: A Sociology of Religion. Islam as Cataclysm and Fanaticism.
The Orient of the Despot.
The Orient of Modernity.
Whither the Orient?
The Sword and the Pen.
Probing the Orient: Volney's Investigation.
The Orient of Everyday Colonialism.
Contempt & Depreciation.
Paternalism, Appreciation.
Self-Criticism, Re-appreciation.
The Integrated Orient.
The Stanched Source.
Hegelian Integration. Hegel's Children.
Oneiric Integration.
The Death of Sardanapalus.
The Uneasy Orient.
The Decline of the West. Spengler, Last of the Monologues.
Toynbee: Toward Dialogue?
Kindred Souls.
The Impossible Reconciliation.
Acceptance by Analogy: First Case. Acceptance by Analogy: Second Case.
The Return of the Repressed.
The Dialectic of Identity.
The Scientific Approach to the Other.
Cultural Identity & Modernity.
By Way of the Other... The Deadly Frontier.