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(b) Second Reply
      
(c) Third Reply
   
4. Is Anti-Realism a Form of Transcendental Idealism?
   
5. In Further Retrospect and in Further Prospect
Part Three The Late Modern Period II: Non-Analytic Traditions
15. Nietzsche: Sense Under Scrutiny Again
   
1. Introduction
   
2. Truth, the Pursuit of Truth, and the Will to Truth
   
3. Prospects for Metaphysics I: Perspectivism
   
4. Prospects for Metaphysics II: Grammar
   
5. Prospects for Metaphysics III: Transcendence
   
6. Nietzsche’s Vision. Truth Again
   
7. Nietzsche
Pro
Spinoza and
Contra
Hegel
      
(a) Nietzsche
Pro
Spinoza
      
(b) Nietzsche
Contra
Hegel
   
8. Eternal Return
16. Bergson: Metaphysics as Pure Creativity
   
1. Introduction
   
2. Analysis (or Intelligence) versus Intuition
   
3. Space versus Duration. The Actual versus the Virtual. The Real versus the Possible
   
4. Identity versus Difference
   
5. Bergson Compared with Some of His Predecessors
      
(a) Bergson Compared with Fichte
      
(b) Bergson Compared with Spinoza and Nietzsche
   
6. The Implications for Metaphysics
      
(a) The Implications for Metaphysics on Bergson’s Own Conception of Metaphysics
      
(b) The Implications for Metaphysics on the Analytic Conception of Metaphysics
      
(c) The Implications for Metaphysics on the Intuitive Conception of Metaphysics
17. Husserl: Making Sense of Making Sense; or, The
Ne Plus Ultra
of Transcendentalism
   
1. Husserl
Vis-à-Vis
the Analytic Tradition
   
2. The Phenomenological Reduction
   
3. Why Husserl Is Unlike Descartes (But Not Unlike Wittgenstein)
   
4. The Execution of the Project
   
5. The Eidetic Reduction
   
6. Idealism in Husserl
   
7. Husserl as Metaphysician
18. Heidegger: Letting Being Be
   
1. Introduction
   
2. Heidegger as Phenomenologist,
Pro
Husserl and
Contra
Husserl; or, Three Characterizations of Phenomenology
      
(a) First Characterization
      
(b) Second Characterization
      
(c) Third Characterization
   
3. The Execution of the Project.
Dasein
   
4. Overcoming the Tradition
   
5. Heidegger as Metaphysician
   
6. Metaphysics as Poetry
   
7. Idealism in Heidegger?
19. Collingwood: Metaphysics as History
   
1. Introduction
   
2. Absolute Presuppositions and Metaphysics as the Study of Them
   
3. A Second (Themed) Retrospective
      
(a) Hume
      
(b) Kant
      
(c) Hegel (and Bergson)
      
(d) The Later Wittgenstein
      
(e) Carnap and the Logical Positivists
      
(f) The Phenomenologists
      
(g) Coda
   
4. Collingwood’s Conservatism. The Possibilities Afforded by Non-Propositional Sense-Making
20. Derrida: Metaphysics Deconstructed?
   
1. A Foretaste
   
2. Derrida
Vis-à-Vis
Phenomenology; or, Derrida
Pro
Heidegger and
Contra
Husserl
      
(a) Derrida
Pro
Heidegger
      
(b) Derrida
Contra
Husserl
   
3. Speech and Writing
   
4. Deconstruction
   
5. Différance
   
6. How to Do Things with Words
   
7. Whither Metaphysics?
   
Appendix: The Distinction Between Using an Expression and Mentioning It
21. Deleuze: Something Completely Different
   
1. Introduction
   
2. A Third (Themed) Retrospective
      
(a) Deleuze’s Three Great Heroes: Bergson, Nietzsche, Spinoza
      
(b) Hegel
      
(c) Leibniz
      
(d) Hume
      
(e) Kant
      
(f) Heidegger
   
3. Difference
   
4. The Execution of the Project. Sense
   
5. The Dogmatic Image of Thought
      
(a) Representation
      
(b) Common Sense and Good Sense
      
(c) Clarity and Distinctness
      
(d) Four Assumptions
   
6. The Nature of Problems, The Nature of Concepts, and the Nature of Philosophy; or, Metaphysics as the Creation of Concepts
   
7. Three Answers
      
(a) The Transcendence Question
      
(b) The Creativity Question
      
(c) The Novelty Question
Conclusion
   
1. Varieties of Sense-Making
   
2. History
   
3. The Wittgenstein Question
      
(a) Consent
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