Reiner Schürmann (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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VOLUME ONE

General Introduction

PART ONE

IN THE NAME OF THE ONE: THE GREEK HEGEMONIC FANTASM

I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE ONE THAT HOLDS TOGETHER (PARMENIDES)

Chapter 1. Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion

Chapter 2. Contraries: The Foundation for Obligation

Chapter 3. On Power and Forces: The Normative System

Chapter 4. Henology Turned Against Itself?

Chapter 5. The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey

II. ITS DESTITUTION: THE ONE TURNED AGAINST ITSELF (PLOTINUS)

Introduction

Chapter 6. The Temporalizing Event

Chapter 7. The Singularising Contretemps

PART TWO

IN THE NAME OF NATURE:

THE HEGEMONIC LATIN FANTASM

Introduction

I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE PRINCIPLE OF TELIC CONTINUITY (CICERO AND AUGUSTINE)

Chapter 8. Concerning Singular Given Natures

Chapter 9. On the Erratic Differend

Chapter 10. On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned Against Itself

II. ITS DESTITUTION: THE DOUBLE BIND OF PRINCIPLE AND ORIGIN (MEISTER ECKHART)

Introduction

Chapter 11. Nature, Principle of Subordinations

Chapter 12. Feet On One's Neighbor's Head

Chapter 13. Nature Denatured by the Origin

VOLUME TWO

Preface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken Hegemonies

PART THREE:

IN THE NAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS:

THE MODERN HEGEMONIC FANTASM

Introduction

Excursus: the consciousness of Ulysses

I. 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 Differend

B. The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: "I, the Possessor of the World"

Introduction

Chapter 3. The Torments of Autonomy

Chapter 4. The Differend in Being-For-Consciousness

II. THE DIREMPTION: ON DOUBLE BINDS WITHOUT A COMMON NOUN (HEIDEGGER)

Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now

Chapter 5. On the Historical Differend

Chapter 6. What, the Deferred There?

Chapter 7. On the Discordance of Times

Conclusion

Notes

Index