Cosmopolitan Evolution Book

Preface

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Classical and Medieval Mind: The Predominance of Universalism without Complexity 11

Excursus I Systems Theory, Consciousness, and Virtue 35

Chapter 2 The Renaissance Consciousness: the Development of Internal Complexity through Boundaries and Self-Reference 41

Chapter 3 English Renaissance Drama and Self-Reference 61

Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives: Universalism and the Travel Consciousness 83

Chapter 5 Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives: National Interests and Self-Reflection 111

Excursus II Oroonoko, Self-Reference, and the Internalization of the Foreign 131

Chapter 6 The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and the Ascendancy of Cosmopolitan Particularism: Self-Regulation and Self-Governance 141

Chapter 7 The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and Complex Universalism: Daniel Defoe, Self-Governance, and Sympathy 165

Conclusion 185

Notes 189

Bibliography 225

Index 237