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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

Preface to the Electronic Edition

V.

V.

DUE PROCESS IN LAW

V.

EQUAL PROTECTION IN LAW

V.

NATURAL LAW ANDNATURAL RIGHTS

V.

LEGAL PRECEDENT

V.

LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY

V.

VII.

VII.

LINGUISTIC THEORIES INBRITISH SEVENTEENTH- CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

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LITERARY PARADOX

III.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES

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II.

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V.

VI.

MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM

II.

MAN-MACHINEFROM THE GREEKS TO THE COMPUTER

V.

V.

MARXIST REVISIONISM:FROM BERNSTEIN TO MODERN FORMS

VII.

RELATIVITY OF STANDARDS OFMATHEMATICAL RIGOR

VII.

MATHEMATICS INCULTURAL HISTORY

I.

CHANGING CONCEPTSOF MATTER FROM ANTIQUITY TO NEWTON

VI.

METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHY

VI.

METAPHOR INRELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

VI.

METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION

III.

III.

VI.

III.

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III.

MOTIF IN LITERATURE:THE FAUST THEME

I. THE HISTORICAL FIGURE

II. THE LEGEND AND ITS SOURCES

III. THE MORALITY FIGURE

V. THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY HERO

VI. FAUSTIAN AMBIVALENCES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

III.

LITERARY ATTITUDESTOWARD MOUNTAINS

III.

MUSIC AND SCIENCE

III.

MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART

III.

MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART

III.

MYTH IN ANTIQUITY

III.

MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES

III.

MYTH IN THE MIDDLE AGESAND THE RENAISSANCE

III.

MYTH INENGLISH LITERATURE: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

III.

MYTH IN THE EIGHTEENTH ANDEARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES

III.

MYTH IN THE NINETEENTHAND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

V.

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCEIDEAS OF NATION

V.

III.

NATURALISM IN ART

I.

VI.

III.

NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART

VI.

I.

NEWTON AND THEMETHOD OF ANALYSIS

III.

NEWTON'S OPTICKS ANDEIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION

VII.

I.

OPTICS AND VISION

I.

IV.

ORIENTAL IDEASIN AMERICAN THOUGHT

VI.

ETHICS OF PEACE

V.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE

VI.

PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY

VI.

PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN

IV.

PERIODIZATION IN HISTORY

III.

PERIODIZATION INLITERARY HISTORY

V.

VI.

III.

RHETORIC AND LITERARYTHEORY IN PLATONISM

VI.

PLATONISM IN PHILOSOPHYAND POETRY

VI.

PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE

VI.

PLATONISMSINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT

III.

POETRY AND POETICS FROMANTIQUITY TO THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

VI.

POSITIVISM IN EUROPETO 1900

VI.

POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA

VI.

POSITIVISM IN THETWENTIETH CENTURY (LOGICAL EMPIRICISM)

VI.

II.

PRE-PLATONIC CONCEPTIONSOF HUMAN NATURE

II.

II.

PRIMITIVISM IN THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURY

VII.

PROBABILITY:OBJECTIVE THEORY

IV.

PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

IV.

PROGRESS INTHE MODERN ERA

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VI.

PROPHECY INHEBREW SCRIPTURE

VI.

PROPHECY IN THEMIDDLE AGES

V.

PROTEST MOVEMENTS

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How Faust has become a mythic figure for modern
man, and “Faustian” (German: faustisch) an accepted
synonym for “insatiable,” “Promethean,” “dynamic,”
etc., is the theme of this article.