Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Translator’s Note xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. I. The End of Philosophy, or the Paradoxes of Speaking
7. 1. Skeptical and Scientific “Post-philosophy” 3
8. 2. “Saying and the Said”: Two Paradigms for the Same Subject 37
9. 3. The Antispeculative View: Habermas as an Example 73
10. 4. Kant’s Shadow in the Current Philosophical Landscape 96
11. II. Challenging the “Death of Philosophy”: The Reflexive A Priori
12. 5. A Definition of the Model: Scientific Learning and Philosophical Knowledge 129
13. 6. The Model of Self-reference’s Consistency 143
14. 7. The Model’s Fecundity 162
15. 8. Beyond the Death of Philosophy 183
16. III. The End of Philosophy in Perspective: The Source of the Reflexive Deficit
17. 9. The “Race to Reference” 191
18. 10. The Tension Between Reference and Self-reference in the Kantian System 195
19. 11. Helmholtz’s Choice as a Choice for Reference: The Naturalization of Critique 217
20. 12. Critique: A Positivist Theory of Knowledge or Existential Ontology? 226
21. 13. Questioning the History of Philosophy 239
22. Conclusion 250
23. Notes 273