Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Chapter 1. Suspicion, Deception, and Concealment 1
6. Chapter 2. The Lived Present 15
7. Chapter 3. Erotic Ascent 39
8. Chapter 4. The Golden Apple 62
9. Chapter 5. The Problem of Sense Perception in Plato's Philebus 81
10. Chapter 6. Forms, Elements, and Categories 102
11. Chapter 7. Technē and the Origins of Modernity 112
12. Chapter 8. Sad Reason 126
13. Chapter 9. Transcendental Indeterminateness 144
14. Chapter 10. Freedom and Reason 164
15. Chapter 11. Interpretation and the Fusion of Horizons: Remarks on Gadamer 182
16. Chapter 12. Is There a Sign of Freedom? 202
17. Chapter 13. Philosophy and Ordinary Experience 218
18. Chapter 14. Nothing and Dialectic 240
19. Chapter 15. Kojève’s Paris: A Memoir 258
20. Notes 279
21. Index 289