From the Book - First edition.
Prologue: 1848: great expectations
Part I: the development hypothesis: 1848-1871
The new Prometheus: socialis and spiritualists in the age of the machine
The stones of Venice: Ruskin and Thoreau against the juggernaut
The French revelation : Baudelaire, Levi, and the romantic occult
The descent of man: Darwin, Gobineau, and the meaning of life
The new chronology: Whitman, Huxley, and the war for the soul
The origin of the world: Wagner, Jesus, and the racial spirit
Part II: the new age: 1871-1898 00 Passage to India: Madame Blavatsky's empire of theosophy
The revolt of Zarathustra: Nietzshe in Urania
the eternal return: Colonel Olcott and the modern Buddha
The will to power: Afghani's Islamic science and other conspiracies
Culture and anarchy: The new-age education of Mohandas Gandhi
The perspectivists: Vivekananda and Herzl among the Aryans
Epilogue: 1989: the psychopathology of everyday life.
