Revised table of contents - Dominion and Innocence

Preface............................................................................................................ 3

Introduction: Which Bacon?……….................................................……8

PART I — THE DANGEROUS GIFT....................................... 14

1. The Ancient Bearers of Knowledge...................................…….15

2. The Watchers and the Corruption of the Gift.................32

3. Prometheus, the Titans, and the Greek Inheritance....51

4. The Gift and the Hero Transformed: Biblical Reversals of Ancient Myth.…………………………………………………………………………………. 73

PART II — THE HERO AND THE TRIAL OF JUDGMENT...…. 95

5. Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype........................ 96

6. Hamlet: The Hero After Certainty......................................... 129

7. Don Quixote: The Hero Enchanted by Books................. 151

8. The Anatomy of Melancholy: The Library as Cure and Disease..................………………………………………………………………………………… 178

9. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart: A Literary and Intellectual Anomaly………………………200

PART III — THE GOVERNMENT OF POWER..................... 243

10. Bacon and Machiavelli: Serpentine Wisdom and Columbine Innocence......………………………………………………….244

11. Gentillet's Anti-Machiavel: The Sinews of Command…………………………………………………………………………………………. 264

12. The Ruler Ruled: Bacon, Gentillet, and the Government of the Self.................……………………………………………… 292

13. Bacon and Anti-Machiavel: Counsel, Law, and the Commonwealth...............………………………………………………………………… 313

14. The English Anti-Machiavel: Leicester and Shakespeare...................................……………………………………………………..332

15. Vindiciae contra tyrannos: Covenant, Counsel, and the Moral Limits of Power……………………………………………………………354

16. Bacon and Hobbes: A Philosophical Fork in the Road.......................................…………………………………………………………………. 385

PART IV — THE RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE OF RESTORATION...…………………………………………………………….399

Recovering the Whole Bacon..............................................………400

17. Was Bacon an Atheist?...................................................…………402

18. Knowledge After the Fall................................................………….416

19. Secrecy and the Government of Knowledge..........…424

20. Bacon’s Visionary World................................................………..433

21. The Esoteric Bacon....................................................................….442

CONCLUSION — THE UNFINISHED RESTORATION.............….463