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| 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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