Acknowledgements.- About the Author.- Table of Figures.- Part I - The Emergence of the Theoretic Life in Classical Greek Philosophy.- Chapter 1. The New Barbarism The Contest between Classical Humanist Culture and Techno-Economic Pragmatism.- Chapter 2. In Pursuit of the Noble The Classical Birth of the Liberal Arts.- Chapter 3 The Political and the Theoretic Life - the Challenge of Socrates.- Chapter 4. Aristotelian Teleology The Bridge Between Natural Philosophy and the problem of the Good Life.- Chapter 5. The Aristotelian Revolution The Autonomy of the Theoretic Life and the Dream of Universal Science.- Part II. The Baconian Revolt against Greek Theoria and the Modern Birth of the Technological Mind.- Chapter 6. The Rebirth of Time Sir. Francis Bacon and the Origins of Modernity.- Chapter 7. Bacon s New Magic The Transfigured Aim of the Sciences.- Chapter 8. Technology Displaces Metaphysics - Bacon s New Hierarchy of the Arts and Sciences.- Chapter 9. Breaking Aristotle s Bridge Th