Table of Contents
Preface Introduction
Unity and Plurality: The Wittgensteinian and Hegelian Option Unity and Plurality: The Metaxological View Ways of Being and Mind Structure of the Work
1. Philosophy and Its Others: On Ways of Being Philosophical
Philosophy's Felo de Se Philosophy as Middle Mindfulness Philosophy and the Scholar Philosophy and the Scientist Philosophy and the Poet Philosophy and the Priest Philosophy and the Revolutionary Philosophy and the Hero Philosophy and the Sage Philosophy as Metaxological
2. Being Aesthetic
I. The Immediacy of the Aesthetic
Dualism, the Body and Being's Intimacy Purposeless Preening and the Celebrating Body
II. Aesthetic Self-mediation
Beauty and the Adorning Self Beauty and Dignity
III. Art and the Aesthetic Middle
Imagination as Metaxological Being Imitative, Being Creative
IV. Loss of the Aesthetic Middle
Excessive Subjectivity: Creativity as Negativity The Cult of Novelty
V. Art and Metaxological Otherness
Art and the Community of Others Aesthetic Mindfulness: Art's Tolerance of Otherness
3. Being Religious
I. The Immediacy of the Sacred
The Double Image Ancestor Worship and the Sacred King
II. The Mediation of the Religious Middle
The Open Dialectic of Trust and Distrust The Double Piety: Sacred Terror and Gratitude
III. Metaxological Openness to Sacred Otherness
Naming and Not Naming: The Problem of Anthropomorphism The Middle Way and Mystery
IV. Religious Inwardness and the Metaxological Mediation of Otherness
The Mystic and Religious Inwardness The Prophet and Social Otherness
V. The Problematic Religious Middle
Miracles and Sects Warring Religions Sacramental Earth?
4. Being Ethical
I. The Immediacy of the Ethical Middle
The Dualism of Being and the Good: On Mind and Giants Shame and the Other: On Feeding and Dining
II. The Self-mediation of the Ethical Middle
Free Desire: What is to be Done? Practical Wisdom and the Intermediate Work, Ethical Self-mediation and Dignity
III. Ethical Inwardness and the Middle
Persons and Intrinsic Value
IV. The Ethical Intermediation of Otherness
Ethical Will and Otherness: Two Loves Ethical Civility and Otherness On Justice and Power
V. Ethical Community and Recalcitrant Otherness
Malign(ed) Others: Criminals, Wolfmen The Gyre of Energy
5. Being Mindful: Thought Thinking Its Other
I. First Meditation: Being Mindful and Logic
Logic, Mindfulness and Unruly Otherness Logic, Being, and Mind Logic, Otherness and Power
II. Second Meditation: Being Mindful and Solitude
Solitude and Inward Thisness Negative Otherness and the Desert Country and City Solitude
III. Third Meditation: Being Mindful and Failure
Philosophy and Failure Radical Failure: Modern Success and Stoic Strategy Art and Failure
6. Being Mindful: Thought Singing Its Other
I. Song of Golden Being
II. Sings of the Elemental
The Elemental and Otherness Defiant Simplicity Loss of the Elemental: Denatured Being
III. Songs of Death and Time
Sleep, Death, The Elemental Age: Elemental Time as Fleshed Reversed Time
IV. Song of Breakthrough
V. Song of Festive Being
VI. Songs of Idiot Wisdom
Folly and Mind's Other The Reticence of Power Idiot Wisdom
Notes
Bibliography
Index
