Preface

Prologue at Ephesus: An Enigmatic Saying

Part I: The Veil of Death

1. Heraclitus' Aphorism: "What Is Born Tends to Disappear"

Part II: The Veil of Nature

2. From Phusis to Nature

3. Secrets of the Gods and Secrets of Nature

Part III: "Nature Loves to Hide"

4. Heraclitus' Aphorism and Allegorical Exegesis

5. "Nature Loves to Wrap Herself Up": Mythical Forms and Corporeal Forms

6. Calypso, or "Imagination with the Flowing Veil"

7. The Genius of Paganism

8. The "Gods of Greece": Pagan Myths in a Christian World

Part IV: Unveiling Nature's Secrets

9. Prometheus and Orpheus

Part V: The Promethean Attitude: Unveiling Secrets through Technology

10. Mechanics and Magic from Antiquity to the Renaissance

11. Experimental Science and the Mechanization of Nature

12. Criticism of the Promethean Attitude

Part VI: The Orphic Attitude: Unveiling Secrets through Discourse, Poetry, and Art

13. Physics as a Conjectural Science

14. Truth as the Daughter of Time

15. The Study of Nature as a Spiritual Exercise

16. Nature's Behavior: Thrifty, Joyful, or Spendthrift?

17. The Poetic Model

18. Aesthetic Perception and the Genesis of Forms

Part VII: The Veil of Isis

19. Artemis and Isis

Part VIII: From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Existence: Terror and Wonder

20. Isis Has No Veils

21. The Sacred Shudder

22. Nature as Sphinx

23. From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Being

Conclusion

Notes

Index