Table of Contents
Translator's Preface
Foreward
I. The Mythical Frontier
Appropriating the Past
The Hellenic Connection
The Yearning for Roman Unity
The War of the Roman Succession
The Mythical Rupture
II. Symbiosis and Conflict
Terms of Encounter
The Orient of the Crusaders
The Image of Heresy
Attitudes toward Arab Science
A Mediterranean World
III. The Genesis of Division
Rift or Equilibrium in the Mediterranean?
Ottoman Threat and Closure
Division in the Mediterranean; Rift in the Atlantic
Awareness of the Self and Images of the Other
Evolving Views
Observing the Other
Machiavelli's Political Judgement
Postel's Universal Integration
Bodin and the Sense of History
IV. 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 and its Founding People: a Sociology of Religion
Islam as Cataclysm and Fanaticism
The Orient of the Despot
V. The Orient of Modernity
Whither the Orient
The Word and the Pen
Probing the Orient: Volney's Investigation
The Orient of Everyday Colonialism
Contempt and Deprecation
Self-Criticism, Re-Appreciation
The Integrated Orient
The Stanched Source
Hegelian Integration
"Hegel's Children"
Oneiric Integration
The Death of Sardanapalus
VI. The Uneasy Orient
The Decline of the West
Spengler, last of the Monologues
Toynbee: Toward Dialogue
Kindred Souls
The Impossible Reconciliation
Acceptable by Analogy, First Case
Acceptable by Analogy, Second Case
The Return of the Repressed
The Dialectic of Identity
The Scientific Approach to the Other
Cultural Identity and Modernity
By way of the Other
VI. The Deadly Frontier
