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Preface . . ix
Abbreviations . . xv

1 Childhood (1798-1815) . . 1
2 Youth (1815-1824) . . 9
3 Exile (1824-1829) . . 56
4 The Grand Tour (1829-1831) . . 119
5 Crisis and Rebirth (1831-1832) . . 159
6 Emigration (1832-1834) . . 182
7 Domesticity (1834-1839) . . 225
8 Academe (1839-1841) . . 253
9 Sectarianism (1841-1846) . . 281
10 Scission (1846-1848) . . 356
11 Politics (1848-1849) . . 376
12 Hibernation (1849-1855) . . 418
13 Rebirth and Death (1855) . . 439

Postscript . . 463
Notes . . 477
Bibliography . . 519
Index . . 535

Translator's Note Vll
Introduction 1
1. The Ancient Roots of the "Other" Egypt 5
2. Foreign Wonderland on the Nile: The Greek Writers 19
3. Power and Influence of tne stars 26
4. Alchemy: The Art of Transformation 34
5- Gnosis: Creation as Haw 43
6. Hermetism: Thoth as Hermes Trismegistus 48
7. Egypt of the Magical Arts 55
8. The Spread of Egyptian Cults: Isis and Osiris 64
9. Medieval Traditions 73
10. The Renaissance of Hermetism and Hieroglyphs 83
11. Travels to Egypt: Wonder upon Wonder 92
12. Triumphs of Erudition: Kircher, Spencer, and Cudworth 98
13. "Reformation of the Whole Wide World": The Rosicrucians 106
14. The Ideal of a Fraternity: The Freemasons 116
15. Goethe and Romanticism: "Thinking Hieroglyphically" 128
16. Theosophy and Anthroposophv 141
17. Pyramids, Sphinx, Mummies: A Curse on the Pharaohs 155
18. Egypt a la Mode: Modern Egyptosophy and Afrocentrism 173
19- Outlook: Egypt as Hope and Alternative 189
Chronology 203
Glossary 207
Bibliography 209
Index 221

List of Figures . . IX
Acknowledgments . . XI

Introduction . . 1
Saint Juliana: Anonymous, ca. 1200 . . 9
Saints Agatha, Lucy.Justine, and Barbara: The South English Legendary . . 27
Saint Anastasia: The North English Legendary . . 44
Saint Cecilia: Geoffrey Chaucer . . 49
Saint Christine: William Paris . . 61
Saint Eugenia: The Scottish Legendary . . 70
Saint Winifred: John Mirk . . 82
Saints Margaret and Petronilla: John Lydgate . . 86
Saints Agnes and Dorothy: Osbern Bokenham . . 99
Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins: Anonymous, ca. 1485 . . 164

APPENDICES
Appendix A Lives of Saints Justine and Barbara: The South English Legendary . . 173
Appendix B The Life of Saint Katherine . . 184

Preface vii
PART I. SENSORY ABILITIES
1. Olfaction 3
2. Hearing 25
3. Lateral Line 41
4. Electricity and Magnetism 57
PART 2. COGNITIVE ABILITIES
5. Learning 73
6. Telling Time 93
7. Individual Recognition 109
8. Gauging Predators and Adversaries 127
PART 3. CHOOSING ABILITIES
9. Mate Choice 143
10. Shoal Choice 169
11. Making Compromises 187
Notes 201
Subject Index 243
Species Index 249

Foreword by Pietro Pucci    ix
Translator's Note    xv

I. Greek Tragedy: Political Drama or Oratorio?    I

In which the contemporary reader rediscovers the significance of oratorio in Greek tragedy.

Sartre's Trojan Women 3
Greek Tragedy: Is It Relovant? 8
What the Mourning Voice of Tragedy Tells Us 1l

II. The Theater of Dionysus Is Not in the Agora    14

In which the reader learns tbat Greck tragedy is more tban a controlled sef-representation that the city-state chooses to reveal.

The Agora, the Theater, the Pnyx 15
A Political Stage? 19
Mourning Becomes Electra 20
In the Theater of Dionysus, Seditious Assemblies 23

III. Tragedy and the Antipolitical    26

In which the reader measures how tragedy, as opposed to civic discourse, expresses ineffable grief by means of the oratorio.

Aei versus aei: Aspects of a Conflict 27
Electra, Again and Always 32
CONTENTS
Aei, aiei, aini
The Sound of the Cry 38

IV. The Dilemma of the Self and the Other in Tragedy    42

In which the reader learns how tragedy, as something other than civic discourse, mocks the obligation toforget and the ban on memory.

A Ban on Memory and Its Consequences 42
The Persians, between Civic Education and the
Pleasure of Dionysus 44
Between the Self and the Other, a Delicate Balance 49
The Other Is the Self, and They Are Mortals Equally 50

V. Songwithout Lyre    54

In which the readergrasps how tragedy exploits the       
prohiLitions and opposition of political discourse.       
Glory, Song, Tears 56
An Incompatible Form? 59
Under the Sign of the Oxymoron 62

VI. Dionysus, Apollo    66

In which the reader hears, between song and cry, the mourning voice of tragedy that mixes and disturbs civic identities.

The Muse of Sorrow 67
Shared Cnes 72
Loxias's Crying Woman and Apollo's Bacchante 75

Conclusion: From Citizen to Spectator    81
In which the reader sres tbat, in the theater on the Pnyx, the
spectator discovers throngh catharsis that he is a mortalfrst, a
citizen second.
The Play of Emotions 83
The Individual, the Collectivity, the Theater 85
Choral Catharsis 90
Notes    95
Acknowledgrnents    121   
Index    123  

List of Tables and Maps . . xi
Acknowledgments . . xiii
Footnote Abbreviations . . xv
A Note on Style . . xvii

1. The Soviet Affirmative Action Empire . . 1
The Logic of the Affirmative Action Empire . . 2
The Content of the Affirmative Action Empire . . 9
An Affirmative Action Empire . . 15
The Party and the Affirmative Action Empire . . 20
The Geography of the Affirmative Action Empire . . 23
The Chronology of the Affirmative Action Empire . . 25

PART ONE
Implementing the Affirmative Action Empire . . 29

2. Borders and Ethnic Conflict . . 31
The Emergence of National Soviets in Ukraine . . 33
National Soviets in Belorussia and the RSFSR . . 48
National Soviets and Ethnic Conflict in the Soviet East . . 56
Conclusion . . 72

3. Linguistic Ukrainization, 1923-1932 . . 75
The Background to Ukrainization, 1919-1923 . . 78
Ukrainization, 1923-1925 . . 79
Kaganovich's Ukrainization, April 1925-June 1926 . . 84
The Failure of Comprehensive Ukrainization, 1926-1932 . . 98
Conclusion . . 122

4. Affirmative Action in the Soviet East, 1923-1932 . . 125
East and West . . 126
The Cultural Fund 1. . 29
Mechanical Korenizatsiia, 1923 to 1926 . . 132
Functional Korenizatsiia, 1926 to 1928 . . 139
Affirmative Action and Ethnic Conflict in the Industrial Work Place
Cultural Revolution and Korenizatsiia in the Soviet East . . 154
Conclusion: Korenizatsiia in East and West . . 177

5. The Latinization Campaign and the Symbolic Politics of National Identity . . 182
The Latinization Campaign . . 185
Latinization as Derussification . . 194
Language and Terror in the Soviet West . . 204

PART TWO
The Political Crisis of the Affirmative Action Empire . . 209

6. The Politics of National Communism, 1923-1930 . . 211
The Shumskyi Affair . . 212
Nationality and the Left Opposition . . 228
The Socialist Offensive and Cultural Revolution . . 238
The Cultural Revolutionary Show Trial in Ukraine . . 249
Terror as a System of Signaling . . 254
Terror and Policy Reversal in Belorussia . . 260
Conclusion . . 269

7.The National Interpretation of the 1933 Famine . . 273
The Piedmont Principle and Soviet Border Disputes . . 274
The Ukrainian Question in the RSFSR . . 282
The Kuban Affair . . 291
The National Interpretation of the Grain Requisitions Crisis . . 302
Conclusion: The Aftermath of the December 1932 Politburo Decrees . . 307

PART THREE
Revising the Affirrmative Action Empire . . 309

8. Ethnic Cleansing and Enemy Nations . . 311
The Border Regions . . 312
The Politics of Immigration . . 316
Collectivization and Emigration . . 319
The Ukrainian Crisis . . 325
Ethnic Cleansing . . 328
Enemy Nations . . 335
Conclusion . . 341

9. The Revised Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1933-1939 . . 344
The Skrypnyk Affair . . 345
The Greatest-Danger Principle . . 356
Ukrainization after the Skrypnyk Affair . . 362
Silent Korenizatsiia in the Soviet East . . 372
Conclusion . . 392

10. The Reemergence of the Russians . . 394
The Awkward Republic: The RSFSR . . 394
The Internationalization of the RSFSR . . 401
The Russification of the RSFSR . . 403
Script Russification and the Symbolic Politics of the Great Retreat . . 414
Language and the Great Terror . . 422
Conclusion . . 429

11. The Friendship of the Peoples . . 432
The Brotherhood of the Peoples . . 432
The Friendship of the Peoples . . 437
Stalinist Primordialism . . 442
The First among Equals . . 451
Conclusion . . 460

Glossary . . 462
Bibliography . . 465
Index . . 483