Philosophical verse and/or vice versa. Contemporary history, science, anthropology, religion, art, politics, and philosophy, in verse form. A freethinkers' guide out of the dark forest of misconception and into the luminous clearing of eternal fundamentals. A voyage of the indomitable spirit with the great compass of poets from Homer to Auden; of historians from Thucydides to Gramsci; of scientists from Galileo to Heisenberg; of anthropologists from Levi-Strauss to Todd; of religious figures from Buddha to Christ; of artists from Bach to Van Gogh; of political leaders from Alexander to Mao; of philosophers from Empedocles to Rorty."