Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: FROM SELF TO SACRIFICE: GIRARDIAN THEORY -- 1. DIVISION AND UNITY IN LITERARY SPACE: THE ROMANTIC FALLACY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Debunking the Modern Subject -- 3. Self and Other in Literary Structure -- 4. Fusion and Separation: The Futility of the Romantic Spirit -- 5. Underground Psychology: Dostoevsky's 'The Double' -- 6. The Romantic Lie, and the Historical Struggle for Consciousness -- 7. Failure to Gather: 'The Dostoyevskian Apocalypse' -- 8. Authentic and Inauthentic Unity: Novelistic Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion: The Spiritual and the Literary -- 2. DIVISION AND UNITY IN CULTURAL SPACE: THE SCAPEGOAT MECHANISM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. De-differentiation: The Link between Self and Sacrifice -- 3. Some Characteristics of Violent Reciprocity -- 4. Shakespeare's 'Mimetic Theory': The World as Stage -- 5. Violence and Scapegoating: From Crisis to Resolution -- 6. Mimesis and the Monstrous Double -- 7. Bringing Together All Rites: The Janus Face of the Sacred -- 8. Beyond Structuralism: Representation and Real Violence -- 9. Conclusion: Reading Back In -- 3. NEGATING SUBJECTIVITY AND HISTORY: PROBLEMS WITHIN GIRARDIAN THEORY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Explaining Cultural Space by Reference to Literary Space -- 3. History as Negating Negativity: The Legacy of Alexandre Kojève -- 4. Interdividual Psychology: A Loss of Positive Interiority? -- 5. 'The Death of Desire': Mimesis and the World as Will -- 6. Dostoevsky's Conscious Attack on Rationalism -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond Literary Space -- PART II: FROM SACRIFICE TO SELF: TAYLOR'S PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNT -- 4. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: TRANSPOSING THE OLD COSMIC ORDER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Taylor's St. Augustine: 'In Interiore Homine' -- 3. Disengaged Reason and the Affirmation of Ordinary Life.

4. Right Use, Right Order: Innerworldly Asceticism -- 5. Deism and the New Providential Order: Re-marking Difference -- 6. Conclusion: 'Self-Love and Social' -- 5. RETHINKING DIVISION AND UNITY: SUBJECTIVITY, RELIGION AND THE CURRENT OF LIFE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sentiments and the Voice of Nature -- 3. Expression and Originality: Combining Two Views of Nature -- 4. 'Self-divinisation' or the Demands of Expression? -- 5. Religion and the History of Division -- 6. Division and the Unity of Life: 'Unanimity Plus One' -- 7. Conclusion: A Post-Romantic Vision -- 6. CRISIS AND UNITY IN MORAL SPACE: IDENTITY AND THE GOOD -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Moral Space: Strong Value, Identity and Gaining Orientation -- 3. Disenchantment: Modern Crisis, and Being Lost in Moral Space -- 4. 'Conclusions' in Moral Space: Craving, and the Unity of a Self -- 5. Taylor's Dostoevsky: Positive and Negative Mediation -- 6. Conclusion: The Best Account Possible -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- Index to Part I -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index to Part II -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.