Book Draft - Dominion and Innocence: Francis Bacon and the Unfinished Restoration
Contents
Preface...............................................................................................………………………...3
Introduction: Which Bacon?.................................................………………………..6
PART I – THE DANGEROUS GIFT
1. The Ancient Bearers of Knowledge..............................……………………….11
2. The Watchers and the Corruption of the Gift.............………………23
3. Prometheus, the Titans, and the Greek Inheritance............…36
4. The Gift and the Hero Transformed: Biblical Reversals of
Ancient Myth............................................................................………………… 50
PART II – THE HERO AND THE TRIAL OF JUDGMENT
5. Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype.................................….65
6. Hamlet: The Hero After Certainty............................................………….85
7. Don Quixote: The Hero Enchanted by Books..........................……98
8. The Anatomy of Melancholy......................................................……….. 116
9. The Labyrinth of the World and the
Paradise of the Heart............…………………………………………………………………….. 130
PART III – POWER UNDER MORAL GOVERNMENT
10. Bacon and Machiavelli.........................................................………………….156
11. Hobbes and Bacon: A Philosophical Fork in the Road........…164
12. Was Bacon an Atheist?..........................................................………………... 176
13. The Visionary World.............................................................…………………….. 188
Conclusion: The Unfinished Restoration......................................………200