Nietzsche's Prophecy

by Sarles, Harvey B.

• ISBN13: 9781573928724
• ISBN10: 1573928720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Humanity Books

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Diagnoses	p. 19
The Crisis in Meaning	p. 19
Symptoms and Their Paths	p. 22
The Loss of Progress	p. 24
Meaning and Futurity	p. 26
Millennialism	p. 27
Fin de Siecle	p. 28
Global Realization	p. 29
Franchising the World	p. 30
Green Groan	p. 31
Rising Expectation	p. 31
De-Moralization	p. 32
De-Construction	p. 33
Diminution in Being	p. 34
Style-eye-zed	p. 36
Narcissism	p. 37
Anorexia	p. 38
The Urge to Truth	p. 39
If Only	p. 40
Home Security Systems	p. 40
Pop Psych and Feelin' Good	p. 41
Culture: Social Construction of Reality	p. 43
Truth Is Political	p. 43
The Greatest Tragedy of Our Times	p. 44
The Meaning of Meaning	p. 47
On Meaning	p. 48
The Necessity of Meaning	p. 50
Meaning, Reason, and the Rational	p. 51
The Origin of Meaning	p. 53
The Origin of Language?	p. 55
Skepticism about Knowledge	p. 58
Curriculum Arguments	p. 60
Vastness of the Curriculum (Life)	p. 61
Grammar, Meaning, and Representation	p. 61
Nietzsche's Prophecy	p. 64
Reality of Meaning of Reality	p. 65
Revisionism	p. 68
Spin Doctors	p. 68
Interpretation and Literality	p. 69
Orwell's Dystopia of Meaning	p. 71
Who Controls the Idea of Nature?	p. 71
Cultural and Other Relativisms	p. 73
Relativism, Language, Rationality	p. 75
Work and the Scale of Society	p. 76
Fear versus Wonder	p. 78
Meaning Empties Out	p. 83
The Dilemma of Interpretation	p. 84
World-As-Text [approaches] Text-As-World	p. 86
End of Philosophy	p. 87
The Hidden Axis of Change versus Chaos	p. 88
Progress, Hope, and Bureaucracy	p. 89
Idea of a University	p. 92
Dumbing Down	p. 93
Efficiency	p. 95
Boring	p. 95
Eschatology	p. 96
Genius, Heroes - What Time, This?	p. 97
Superfluous Superlatives	p. 98
Fame	p. 98
Dualistic Thinking	p. 100
Analysis and Fragmentation	p. 101
Culture Wars	p. 102
Death of God; the Persistence of Yearnings	p. 103
Mysticism	p. 104
Snapping	p. 106
Surveys/Polls	p. 107
Genome, Determination, Being	p. 107
The Market Economy	p. 109
Popularity Contestation	p. 110
Dis-Appearance of the Teacher	p. 111
New Age	p. 112
Agedness	p. 112
The Man without Qualities (Musil)	p. 113
Wisdom (Information, Knowledge ...)	p. 114
Technology: A Metaphor for Meaning and Being	p. 117
Bodies and Machines	p. 118
Being-As-Machine (1)	p. 118
Psychology and Nihilism	p. 120
Being-As-Machine (2)	p. 121
Structure versus Process	p. 122
The Language Machine	p. 123
Robots versus Former Friends	p. 125
The Technological Mentality	p. 127
ESP and Borders of Scientific Inquiry	p. 129
Utopias/Dystopias	p. 130
The Knowledge Industry	p. 132
Knowledge Industries	p. 132
Cosmology Arises from the Ashes	p. 133
Ecological Disasters [approaches] Homelessness	p. 134
The Images of TV	p. 134
The Meaning of Being Human	p. 139
The Humanist Dilemma	p. 140
Metaphors That Plague Us	p. 142
The Undermining of Science	p. 144
Wither Wisdom?	p. 148
Reductionism	p. 149
The Two Cultures and the Primacy of Texts	p. 150
Geometries/Logics versus Perspectival Being	p. 152
Husserl's Failings, Derrida's Flailings	p. 153
Authority and Naivete	p. 154
Technique over Knowledge	p. 156
The Narcissism Cycle	p. 157
Culture versus Communication	p. 158
Altered States	p. 159
The Fault in Being	p. 161
Muses on the Meaning of Charles Lindbergh	p. 163
The Human Search for Meaning	p. 169
A Philosophical Anthropology	p. 170
Authority and Agency	p. 171
Finite or Infinite	p. 172
A Crisis of Meaning	p. 174
Context	p. 176
Paradox	p. 176
The Ethological Critique	p. 177
Speculative History	p. 181
Retrievals, Recollections, Resurrections	p. 183
Ascetic Esthetics	p. 185
Intellectuals or Wisdom?	p. 186
What Purpose, Purpose?	p. 188
The Contract	p. 189
Knowledge	p. 191
Ideas	p. 193
Cultural Critique	p. 195
The Idea of a University ... or	p. 196
Seeking Common Ground	p. 198
A Return to Experience: Pragmatism	p. 199
Dialogue	p. 201
Vocation or Career	p. 202
Meaning via Transcendence	p. 203
The Transcendental Temptation	p. 204
Kierkegaard's Problem - Be Serious	p. 207
Generation	p. 207
Utopic Underwriting	p. 208
Nobility	p. 210
Index	p. 215
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