Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Philosophy of the Age
Chapter 1. Rejected Options
Chapter 2. The Perennial Philosophy and Its Enemy
Pragmatism as a Starting Point
Ideas of the Pragmatists
Central Themes: Agency, Contingency, Futurity, Experimentalism
Two Misreadings of Pragmatism
Pragmatist Insights and American Mistakes
A Conception of Humanity
Elements of a Conception
Philosophical Attitudes Associated with These Ideas
The Source of the Antinomies
The Impersonal and the Personal
The Antinomy of Time
The Antinomy of Objectivity
Time Is Real
The Thesis That Time Is the Transformation of Transformation
The Thesis That Time Holds Sway over Everything
The Thesis That There Is No Closed Horizon of Possible Worlds
The Thesis That Mathematics Resists the Recognition of Time
The Thesis That Human Experience Has an Inescapable Temporal Structure
The Imagination Disarmed: Rationalization, Humanization, and Escapism
Self-Consciousness Redirected
An Initial View of the Mind
The Initial View Developed by Contrast
The Two Sides of the Mind
From the Conception of the Mind to the Marking of a Direction
Conception and Orientation
The Indifference of Nature
False Escape
Will and Imagination
The Manifest World and Hidden Reality
The Conflict between the Enabling Requirements of Self-Possession
Self and Character
Historical and Biographical Time
The Prophecies of Art
Chapter 9. Society: The Perpetual Invention of the Future
Democratic Experimentalism
The Radicalization of Democracy
Hope and Strife
Chapter 11. A Moment of Reform: The Reinvention of Social Democracy
The Problems of Connection and Transcendence Restated
How We Encounter These Problems in the Course of a Life
Existential Options
The Two Awakenings of the Self
Demands of the Second Awakening
Chapter 13. Philosophy: Beyond Superscience and Self-Help
First Digression: Nature in Its Place
Second Digression: The Universal Grid of Philosophy
Proper Name Index
Thematic Index