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Dedication
Contents
Proem: First Epistle to the Highbrows
Grand Synthesis: Mythology of the 21st Century
1. Introduction
2. The Rhizomodality of High Culture
2.1 Prelusion
2.2 A New Philosophy of Culture
2.3 A New Science of Culture-systems
2.4 The Expressive Modality of Culture-systems
2.5 Science as a Mode of Expression
2.6 Secondary Modes of Expression
2.7 Unitary Cultural Modality
2.8 Enculturation
3. Millennium Metalogue: A New Basis for Dialogue Between Science, Spirituality, and Art
3.1 Prelusion
3.2 The Scientific/Spiritual Arms Race: Mutually-Assured Deconstruction
3.3 Piercing the Academic Iron Curtain
3.4 The Culture-soul: Unbearable Lightness of Being-in-the-World
3.5 Western World-feeling, Christianity, and Postmodern Metaphysics
3.6 The Noödynamic Worldview
3.7 The Culture-systemic Theory of Art
3.8 From Pop-culture to Post-modern Aesthetics
4. Ecology of Mind: Emergence of the Noödynamic Paradigm
4.1 Prelusion
4.2 Postmodern Paradigmatics
4.3 The Nascent Science-based Nature-religion
4.4 Empirical Spirituality
4.5 Logical Faith
5. Psychography: The Character of Western Culture
5.1 Prelusion
5.2 The Psychographical Paradigm
5.3 The Faustian Mythologem
5.4 Music and Mountains, Painting and Ruins
5.5 Mathematics: Faustian Catechism
5.6 Technology: Faustian Ritual
5.7 Psychography in the New Millennium
6. Remembrance of Things Past: The Second Religiosity
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