The code of Concord Book

	Preface	9
I	Prologue: An Inquiry into the Emersonian Mind	15
	The Transcendental misnomer	17
	Reflection and Refraction	22
	Representative Crisis	29
II	Laws of Nature	37
	Ethics and Physics	39
	Theodicy and Myth: Towards an Ontology of Evil	58
	Felix Culpa and Innocence Regained	88
	The Dark Warp	93
	Butler's Analogy	97
	Towards a Universal Paradigm: The Baconian Scholar and the Concurrent Text	105
III	Laws of Society	117
	The Elevation of the Individual	119
	The Uses of the Great and Representative	143
	Uses, Utility, and Utilitarianism	166
	The Socialization of the Self	176
	Natural Law and Human Rights	215
	Democratic Republicanism, or; The Dynamics of Equilibrium	240
	The Power of the Symbol and the Good Society	248
IV	Laws of Art	255
	The Elevation of the Low	257
	Jeffrey's Analogy	278
	The Poet and the Scientist	281
	The Poet and the Mystic	287
	Why Jesus had to be a Poet	302
	The Symbology of Loss and Self-Restitution	306
	The Rainbow Bridge	309
	The Intertextual Qabbalah	311
	The Golden Bough	315
	The Temple	324
	The Secret of Creativity	329
	Caribbean Vistas	339
	The Magic of Theurgy	341
V	The Emergence of Concord Philosophy	345
	The Aristotelian Turn	347
	Ancient and Classical Origins	358
	Conclusion: Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in Concord	371
	Abbreviations	374
	Bibliography	376
	Index	405