Table of Contents

Translator's RemarksVOLUME ONEGeneral IntroductionPART ONE IN THE NAME OF THE ONE: THE GREEK HEGEMONIC FANTASMI. ITS INSTITUTION: THE ONE THAT HOLDS TOGETHER (PARMENIDES)Chapter 1. Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their ConfusionChapter 2. Contraries: The Foundation for ObligationChapter 3. On Power and Forces: The Normative SystemChapter 4. Henology Turned Against Itself?Chapter 5. The Disparate: Narrative of a JourneyII. ITS DESTITUTION: THE ONE TURNED AGAINST ITSELF (PLOTINUS)IntroductionChapter 6. The Temporalizing EventChapter 7. The Singularising ContretempsPART TWO IN THE NAME OF NATURE: THE HEGEMONIC LATIN FANTASMIntroductionI. ITS INSTITUTION: THE PRINCIPLE OF TELIC CONTINUITY (CICERO AND AUGUSTINE)Chapter 8. Concerning Singular Given NaturesChapter 9. On the Erratic DifferendChapter 10. On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned Against ItselfII. ITS DESTITUTION: THE DOUBLE BIND OF PRINCIPLE AND ORIGIN (MEISTER ECKHART)IntroductionChapter 11. Nature, Principle of SubordinationsChapter 12. Feet On One's Neighbor's HeadChapter 13. Nature Denatured by the OriginVOLUME TWOPreface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken HegemoniesPART THREE: IN THE NAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE MODERN HEGEMONIC FANTASMIntroductionI. 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 DifferendB. The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: "I, the Possessor of the World"IntroductionChapter 3. The Torments of AutonomyChapter 4. The Differend in Being-For-ConsciousnessII. THE DIREMPTION: ON DOUBLE BINDS WITHOUT A COMMON NOUN (HEIDEGGER)Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us NowChapter 5. On the Historical DifferendChapter 6. What, the Deferred There?Chapter 7. On the Discordance of TimesConclusionNotes

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Reinterprets the history of Western philosophy from Greece to modern times.

About the Author

Reiner Schurmann (1941-1993) was Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include Meister Eckhardt: Mystic and Philosopher and Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (both Indiana University Press).

Reginald Lilly, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Skidmore College, is translator of The Principle of Reason by Martin Heidegger and editor of The Ancients and the Moderns (both Indiana University Press).

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"... a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -John Sallis