Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I Philosophical Vitality (1919– 21)
8. 1 Science and the Originality of Life 21
9. 2 Christian Facticity 46
10. PART II Factical Life (1921– 22)
11. 3 Grasping Life as a Topic 61
12. 4 Ruinance 83
13. PART III The Hermeneutics of Facticity (1922– 23)
14. 5 The Retrieval of History 101
15. 6 Facticity and Ontology 120
16. PART IV The Language of Life (1923– 25)
17. 7 Factical Speaking 139
18. 8 Rhetoric 162
19. 9 Sophistry 186
20. Conclusion 211
21. Notes 225
22. Glossary of Greek Terms and Expressions 263
23. Bibliography 267
24. Index 277