• Title
  • Copyright
  • 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
  • Bibliography