Preface ........................................................ ix
Introduction .................................................... i
1 The Nominalist Revolution and the Origin of Modernity ....... 19
2 Petrarch and the Invention of Individuality ................. 44
3 Humanism and the Apotheosis of Man .......................... 69
4 Luther and the Storm of Faith .............................. 101
5 The Contradictions of Premodernity ......................... 129
6 Descartes' Path to Truth ................................... 170
7 Hobbes' Fearful Wisdom ..................................... 207
8 The Contradictions of Enlightenment and the Crisis of
Modernity .................................................. 255
Epilogue ...................................................... 289
Notes ......................................................... 295
Index ......................................................... 363
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