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Book SynopsisArgues that not only our thought is governed by an imperative, as Kant had maintained, but, rather, our sensual, sensing, perceiving, and emotional life is continually regulated by imperatives that come to us from the world around us.
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Table of ContentsPreface Part One. Directives 1. Nightwatch 2. The Elements 3. The Levels 4. The Intimate and the Alien 5. Things 6. Intimate and Alien Things 7. Action with Things 8. The Production of Purposes 9. The Pageantry of Things 10. Phantom Equator 11. The Reasons of the Heart 12. Other Passions 13. Face to Face 14. Association 15. Erotic Demands 16. The Summons of Death 17. The Death of Strangers 18. The Walkabout 19. Importance, Urgency, Immediacy Part Two The Imperative 20. Images of the Imperative 21. The Theoretical and Practical Uses of Reason 22. The Rational and the Required
