" ... offers both an excellent entry into [Sallis's] thought and a strong example of where the tasks of philosophy may yet be found at the closure of metaphysics." - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
" . . . offers both an excellent entry into [Sallis's] thought and a strong example of where the tasks of philosophy may yet be found at the closure of metaphysics." —American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Since Hegel, philosophers have declared repeatedly that metaphysics is at an end. What exactly does the end, or closure, of metaphysics mean, and what are the implications of this view? In his second edition, John Sallis has expanded this major work, contributing to current debates in continental philosophy.
Preface tot he Second Edition
Acknowledgments
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I. Closure of Metaphysics
1. Imagination and Metaphysics
2. The End of Metaphysics: Closure and Transgression
3. The Gathering of Reason
II> Openings—to the Things Themselves
4. Hegel's Concept of Presentation
5. Image and Phenomenon
6. Research and Deconstruction
III> Clearing(s)
7. The Origins of Heidegger's Thought
8. Where Does Being and Time Begin?
9. Into the Clearing
10. End(s)
11. Heidegger/Derrida—Presence
12. Reason and Ek-sistence
13. Meaning Adrift
IV. Archaic Closure
14. At the Threshold of Metaphysics
15. Hades
V. Nonidentity
16. The Identities of the Things Themselves
17. Interruptions
18. Ground
Notes
Index