Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Translatorâ€?s Introduction and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Nothingness and Nihilism
  • Putting the Problem in Its Place
  • Metaphysical Knowledge
  • Note
  • Postscript to the Second Edition (2004)
  • 1. The Question of Nihilism and the Knowledge of Being
  • JÃ?nger, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on Nihilism
  • The Nature of Nihilism
  • Realism and Real Knowledge
  • What Does It Mean to Think?
  • Existential Intellectualism as Anti-nihilism
  • A Digression on Language, Thought, and Reality
  • Returning to the Problem of Nihilism
  • 2. Metaphysical Knowledge of ExistenceAttempts to Neutralize Existence
  • Existence as the Primary Source of all Intelligibility
  • Judgment of Existence
  • Stages in the Gradual Departure from Existence
  • Kant
  • Hegel
  • Schelling
  • The Consequences of the Essentialization of Existence
  • Leave-taking
  • 3. Being, Intellect, and Abstractive Intuition
  • Philosophy as Science
  • Opening the Realm of Metaphysics
  • What Is Metaphysics?
  • Intellectual Intuition
  • Rational and Intellectual
  • Hints at the Intellectual Intuition of Being
  • The Intellect as the Faculty of Categories and the Impossibility of Intellectual Intuition: KantNietzsche: The Adversary of the Intellect
  • The Possibility of Intuition: Bergson
  • Husserl
  • A Brief Digression on Anthropology
  • 4. The Status of First Principles
  • Characteristics of the First Speculative Principles
  • Per se Predication
  • First Principles: Analytic or Synthetic?
  • A Critical Defense of First Principles
  • Metaphysical Causality and Scientific Causality
  • 5. Speculative Nihilism
  • Nietzsche
  • The Transition to Active Nihilism and the Thinking of ValuesThe Question of Truth
  • The Embodiment of the Subject and the Dissolution of the Object
  • Willing the Absurd
  • Theoretic Conception and Tragic Conception
  • Kierkegaard as the Anti-Nietzsche
  • Gentile
  • The Dialectic Immolation of the Object and the Pure Act of Thinking
  • The Unproblematic Innocence of Becoming
  • Actualism as Voluntarism
  • Nihilism as “Ontophobiaâ€? in Nietzsche and Gentile
  • 6. Heidegger
  • Being within the Horizon of Time: Ontology or Ontochronology?
  • Knowledge of Being and the Doctrine of TruthA
  • B
  • On the Entry into Metaphysics
  • A Digression on the Experience of the Self
  • Returning to the Problem of Nihilism in Heidegger
  • A: The Abandonment of the Theoretical and the Marginalization of the Intellect
  • B: Ontological Difference
  • 7. Eight Theses on Postmetaphysical Thinking
  • 8. The Two Roads of Hermeneutics
  • The Rise of Hermeneutics
  • Left-wing Hermeneutics
  • Interlude: Truth and Method
  • “Moderateâ€? Hermeneutics and Immediacy: Ricoeur