Preface: The Dilemma | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Modernity, Philosophy, and Culture | |
The Modernity Debate | |
Philosophy as a Cultural Process | |
The Dynamics Of Subject And Object | |
Introduction to Part One | |
Subjectivism and the Transcendental Synthesis | |
The Pervasiveness of Subjectivism | |
The Subjectivist-Transcendental Synthesis | |
Forging the New Standpoint: Descartes | |
The Dichotomy | |
The Transcendental Bridge | |
Recasting the Synthesis: Kant | |
The Two Orders of Knowing | |
Relating the Two Orders | |
Philosophical Narcissism and the Radicalization of Subjectivism | |
The Fortunes of Subjectivism | |
The Psycho-Dynamic Concept of Narcissism | |
Philosophical Narcissism | |
The Dialectic of Philosophical Narcissism | |
Subjectivism without the Object: Husserl | |
The Project of Husserl's Late Work | |
The Failure of Intersubjectivity in the Cartesian Meditations | |
The Uninhabited Ego | |
Husserl and Sartre | |
The Enigmas of Phenomenology | |
Conclusion | |
Subjectivism without the Subject: Heidegger | |
The Project of Being and Time | |
Dasein and Disclosedness | |
Levinas and the Emptiness of Dasein | |
The Collapse of Heidegger's Concept of World | |
Conclusion | |
The Theory of Modernity | |
Introduction to Part Two | |
Enlightenment and Narcissism: Adorno, Horkheimer, and Lasch | |
The Dialectical Theory | |
A Flaw in the Theory | |
The Cultural Theory and the Rise of Anti-Culture | |
Cultural versus Dialectical Perspectives | |
Cultural Subjectivism and Anti-Culture | |
The Cultural Dimension | |
Introduction to Part Three | |
Anti-Culture and the Alleged Death of Philosophy | |
The Limits of Subjectivism | |
Anti-Cultural Philosophy | |
Post-Modernism | |
The Metaphysics of Culture: A Pluralist-Naturalist View | |
Integrity and Relation | |
The Concept of Culture | |
Culture and Mind: Winnicott, Cassirer, and Dewey | |
Culture and Nature | |
Epilogue: Humanism, Democracy, and Culture | |
Jackboots on the Stairs | |
Anti-Culture and American Democracy | |
Not an Epitaph | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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