Table of Contents
Preface: The Dilemma
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, Philosophy, and Culture
The Modernity Debate
Philosophy as a Cultural Process
Part One
The Dynamics Of Subject And Object
Introduction to Part One
1. Subjectivism and the Transcendental Synthesis
The Pervasiveness of Subjectivism
The Subjectivist-Transcendental Synthesis
2. Forging the New Standpoint: Descartes
The Dichotomy
The Transcendental Bridge
3. Recasting the Synthesis: Kant
The Two Orders of Knowing
Relating the Two Orders
4. Philosophical Narcissism and the Radicalization of Subjectivism
The Fortunes of Subjectivism
The Psycho-Dynamic Concept of Narcissism
Philosophical Narcissism
The Dialectic of Philosophical Narcissism
5. Subjectivism without the Object: Husserl
The Project of Husserl's Late Work
The Failure of Intersubjectivity in the Cartesian Meditations
The Uninhabited Ego
Husserl and Sartre
The Enigmas of Phenomenology
Conclusion
6. Subjectivism without the Subject: Heidegger
The Project of Being and Time
Dasein and Disclosedness
Levinas and the Emptiness of Dasein
The Collapse of Heidegger's Concept of World
Conclusion
Part Two
The Theory of Modernity
Introduction to Part Two
7. Enlightenment and Narcissism: Adorno, Horkheimer, and Lasch
The Dialectical Theory
A Flaw in the Theory
8. The Cultural Theory and the Rise of Anti-Culture
Cultural versus Dialectical Perspectives
Cultural Subjectivism and Anti-Culture
Part Three The Cultural Dimension
Introduction to Part Three
9. Anti-Culture and the Alleged Death of Philosophy
The Limits of Subjectivism
Anti-Cultural Philosophy
Post-Modernism
10. The Metaphysics of Culture: A Pluralist-Naturalist View
Integrity and Relation
The Concept of Culture
Culture and Mind: Winnicott, Cassirer, and Dewey
Culture and Nature
Epilogue: Humanism, Democracy, and Culture
Jackboots on the Stairs
Anti-Culture and American Democracy
Not an Epitaph
Notes
Bibliography
Index
