Description
Book SynopsisReinterprets the history of Western philosophy from Greece to modern times.
Trade Review"... a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -John Sallis
Table of ContentsTranslator's Remarks
VOLUME ONE
General Introduction
PART ONE
IN THE NAME OF THE ONE: THE GREEK HEGEMONIC FANTASM
I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE ONE THAT HOLDS TOGETHER (PARMENIDES)
Chapter 1. Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion
Chapter 2. Contraries: The Foundation for Obligation
Chapter 3. On Power and Forces: The Normative System
Chapter 4. Henology Turned Against Itself?
Chapter 5. The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey
II. ITS DESTITUTION: THE ONE TURNED AGAINST ITSELF (PLOTINUS)
Introduction
Chapter 6. The Temporalizing Event
Chapter 7. The Singularising Contretemps
PART TWO
IN THE NAME OF NATURE:
THE HEGEMONIC LATIN FANTASM
Introduction
I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE PRINCIPLE OF TELIC CONTINUITY (CICERO AND AUGUSTINE)
Chapter 8. Concerning Singular Given Natures
Chapter 9. On the Erratic Differend
Chapter 10. On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned Against Itself
II. ITS DESTITUTION: THE DOUBLE BIND OF PRINCIPLE AND ORIGIN (MEISTER ECKHART)
Introduction
Chapter 11. Nature, Principle of Subordinations
Chapter 12. Feet On One's Neighbor's Head
Chapter 13. Nature Denatured by the Origin
VOLUME TWO
Preface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken Hegemonies
PART THREE:
IN THE NAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
THE MODERN HEGEMONIC FANTASM
Introduction
Excursus: the consciousness of Ulysses
I. ITS INSTITUTION: OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT DETERMINES (KANT WITH LUTHER)
A. The Regime of Passive Consciousness: 'An Obedient Spirit that Lets Itself be Broken...'
Chapter 1. The Identity of the 'I'
Chapter 2. A Pathetic Differend
B. The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: "I, the Possessor of the World"
Introduction
Chapter 3. The Torments of Autonomy
Chapter 4. The Differend in Being-For-Consciousness
II. THE DIREMPTION: ON DOUBLE BINDS WITHOUT A COMMON NOUN (HEIDEGGER)
Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now
Chapter 5. On the Historical Differend
Chapter 6. What, the Deferred There?
Chapter 7. On the Discordance of Times
Conclusion
Notes
Index
