Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Existence, experience, and transcendence: an introduction to Jean Wahl 1
4. 2. Preface to toward the concrete 32
5. 3. Commentary on a passage from Hegel’s phenomenology of spirit 54
6. 4. Hegel and Kierkegaard 90
7. 5. Heidegger and Kierkegaard: an investigation into the original elements of Heidegger’s philosophy 107
8. 6. The problem of choice: existence and transcendence in Jaspers’s philosophy 132
9. 7. Subjectivity and transcendence 152
10. 8. Nietzsche and the death of god: a note on Jaspers’s Nietzsche 216
11. 9. Poetry and metaphysics 220
12. 10. Order and disorder in Nietzsche’s thought 237
13. Experience and transcendence; or, an ontological journey 256
14. Acknowledgments 277
15. A bibliography of works by jean wahl 279
16. Index of names 287