absolute, the, 166, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 186, 187, 195n, 197, 200, 203, 210, 211, 219, 255
Adorno, T.W., 6, 42, 43, 46, 58n, 137n, 138n, 178, 179, 189
aesthetic reason, 10, 11, 143, 145, 146, 148, 168n
agency, 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 42, 45, 46, 49, 81, 114, 115, 119, 120, 179, 180, 252, 253
Ameriks, Karl, 190n, 193n, 195n
Amrine, Frederick, 261n
Anderson, Lanier, 135n
Antonioni, Michaelangelo, 29
appearance, 54, 73n, 145, 151, 155, 163, 167, 219, 283, 285–90, 295, 296
Aristotle, 170n, 229, 239, 240, 249, 282, 283, 284, 288, 293, 296n
art, 4, 10–14, 29, 44, 53, 54, 60–67, 72, 73, 74n, 76n, 97, 99, 108, 116, 117, 119, 126, 127, 129, 130, 133–5, 143–58, 160–64, 166, 167, 168n, 169n, 170n, 172n, 173, 177–80, 182, 183, 185, 186, 1951n, 196, 197, 199, 202, 205, 210, 223, 227, 231, 232, 247, 248, 250, 254–7, 286–8, 296n
Athenaeum Fragments (Schlegel), 150, 152, 154, 155, 157, 159, 167, 169n
Authenticity, 8, 9, 61, 62, 65–67, 70, 71, 73, 75n, 115, 122, 150
Austin, J.L., 61
autonomy, 3, 35–8, 40, 53, 83–5, 96n, 100, 107, 145, 148, 150, 152, 158, 184
Babette's Feast, 281
Baudelaire, Charles, 32, 43, 44, 53, 54, 59n, 138n
Beckett, Samuel, 29, 60, 138n, 139n
Beiser, Frederick, 13, 17, 190n, 206, 207, 213n, 260n
beauty, 24, 29, 145, 147, 155, 168n, 178, 209, 210, 255, 288, 296n
Behler, Ernst, 172n, 190n, 194n, 237n
Being and Time (Heidegger), 71, 76, 85, 95, 265, 273, 280n
Benjamin, Walter, 42, 57n, 58n, 120, 137n, 138n, 139n, 179, 190n, 194n
Bergman, Ingmar, 29
Bernstein, J.M., 11, 12, 169n, 172, 193n
Bersani, Leo, 135n, 136n, 137n, 138n, 13n
Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31n
Gernot Böhme, Hartmut and Gernot, 212n
Blanchot, Maurice, 26, 160, 161, 164–7, 171n, 172n
Bordo, Susan, 58n
Borgmann, Albert, 2, 5, 13, 14, 15, 17n, 274, 276, 281n
Boyle, Nicholas, 100, 101, 112n, 261n, 262n
Brandom, Robert, 96
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 32
Castoriadis, Cornelius, 32, 49
Cavell, Stanley, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16n, 17n, 46, 49, 50, 56, 57n, 58n, 59n
Cervantes, Miguel de, 162, 183
Chandler, James, 149
change, 3, 4, 8, 9, 26, 36, 39, 40, 42, 49, 50, 63–6, 66–73, 74n, 122, 130, 138n, 271
Coetzee, J.M., 149
contingency, 52, 190, 247–50, 253, 255–9, 262n
Copernicus, Nicolas, 197, 198, 238, 240
critique, 3, 4, 7, 12, 42, 46, 49, 91, 148, 154, 159, 170n, 161n, 174, 176, 177, 184, 186, 188, 192n, 241
Critique of Judgment (Kant), 35, 83, 146, 167, 209, 210, 212n, 213n
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 14, 57n, 96, 178, 190n, 200, 243, 244
Critchley, Simon, 172n
Descartes, René, 75n, 224, 240,
Deleuze, Gilles, 8, 62, 66–8, 72, 74n, 76n
De Man, Paul, 12, 160–64, 166, 167, 170n, 171n, 172n, 193n, 235n
dematerialization, 11, 143, 148
dependence and social independence, 6, 9, 10, 343, 39, 49, 71, 84, 90, 98, 115, 116, 127–30, 134, 138n
Derrida, Jacques, 75n, 76n 168n, 193n
Descombes, Vincent, 117, 136n, 138n
Dewey, John, vii, 8, 39, 48, 49, 57n, 58n, 238
disenchantment, 11, 14, 143, 147, 160, 170n, 177, 178,
Dreyfus, Hubert, 1, 14, 15, 281n
Duchamp, Marcel, 168n
Duras, Marguerite, 29,
Eldridge, Richard, 10, 13, 14, 16n, 17n, 59n, 190n, 195n
Elective Affinities (Goethe), 14, 106, 111, 112n, 246–50
Eliot, T.S., 282
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 5, 16n, 21–8, 30n, 31n, 40, 41, 46, 49, 52, 57n, 59n, 100, 113
Esposito, Joseph L., 261
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 8, 49, 51
everyday, the, 9, 14, 15, 16, 28, 32, 43, 46, 50, 59n, 61, 125, 193n, 197, 206, 254, 257, 273, 274, 278–80, 285, 295, 296
expressiveness (expressivity), 3, 4, 7, 27, 99, 108–11, 164
extraordinary, the, xi, 5, 9, 16, 118, 184, 202, 285–7, 295, 296
feeling, 152, 176–82, 185, 186, 198, 200–3, 205, 206, 208–10, 222, 282, 283
Fichte, J.G., 12, 13, 59n, 73n, 83, 146, 148, 152, 153, 157, 158, 160, 161, 170n, 171n, 173, 174–7, 179, 181, 185, 186–8, 190n, 191n, 192n, 193n, 197–9, 201–3, 205, 212, 217–19, 220–2, 226, 228, 229, 232–4, 235n, 236n, 237n, 251
focal practices, 274, 275, 278
Forster, Michael, 53, 59n, 194n
Foucault, Michel, 53, 59n, 194n
fragment, 13, 17n, 147, 151, 152, 157–60, 165–7, 180, 183, 189, 194n
Frank, Manfred, 13, 17n, 190n, 195n, 203, 212n, 261n, 262n, 297n
Freedom, 3, 6, 7, 11–13, 17n, 32–5, 37, 42, 46–51, 53, 62, 64, 67, 68, 70, 72, 75n, 78, 84, 88, 91, 93, 94, 99, 104, 105, 129, 143, 145, 146, 148–53, 155–8, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 170n, 171n, 178, 185, 197, 204, 219, 220, 232–5, 236n, 244, 247, 248, 253–5, 288
Freud, Sigmund, 23, 27, 29, 54
foundationalism/anti-foundationalism, 12, 173, 174, 176, 186, 187, 192n
future, the, xi, 1, 4, 6, 7, 21, 23–30, 36–43, 46–50, 54–6, 57n, 71, 74n, 128, 129
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 96, 287–9, 291, 295–8
Gasché, Rudolph, 112n
Genette, Gérard, 136n
genius, 9, 44, 67, 99, 106, 107–9, 112n, 205, 206, 223
German idealism, 2, 3, 57n 168n, 173, 176, 190n, 197
German romanticism, 2, 3, 173, 177, 184, 189, 191n, 196, 197, 240, 241
Greene, Brian, 262n
Geuss, Raymond, 193n
Goehr, Lydia, 190n
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 2, 9, 10, 14, 60, 97n, 100, 101, 106, 107, 111n, 112n, 152–8, 162, 170n, 183, 193n, 194n, 240–2, 245–51, 254–7, 259n–262n
Grimme, Adolf, 235n
Habermas, Jürgen, 35, 36, 37, 57n, 95n
Hankins, Thomas, 236n
Herder, J.G., 174, 190, 195n, 207, 225, 235n–237n, 248
Hegel, G.W.F., 8–10, 12, 17n, 36, 37, 39, 40, 49, 54–6, 57n, 58n, 62–73, 74n, 75n, 76n, 83, 84, 90, 95n, 113, 159, 167, 169n, 161n, 163, 174, 178, 179, 184–6, 188, 189, 190n, 191n, 193n, 195n, 207, 225, 235n, 236n, 237n, 248
Heidegger, Martin, 4, 5, 8, 15, 16n, 25, 26, 30, 48, 58n, 70–2, 75n, 76n, 85–7, 90, 95n, 996n, 113, 132, 179, 195n, 218, 265–77, 279, 280, 281n, 286, 287, 289, 291, 295, 296n, 297n, 298n
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 255, 256
Hemsterhuis, François, 199, 201, 202, 212n
Henrich, Dieter, 13, 17n, 190n, 192n
Hepburn, R.W., 296n
Hölderlin, 13, 17n, 147, 190n, 198, 206, 217, 222, 225, 235n, 236n, 237n, 274
Honneth, Axel, 95n
Horowitz, Gregg, 193n
Hume, David, 8, 26, 39, 75n, 82, 83, 90, 113, 175, 226, 238, 240
Imagination, 12, 44, 48, 49, 85, 99, 100, 124, 145, 146, 150, 178, 183, 185, 202, 204, 206, 208, 209, 212n, 213n, 222, 246, 254, 255
individuality (individual), 99, 84, 86, 101, 114, 128, 132, 134, 135, 136n, 138n, 150, 180,
irony, 132, 146, 157–63, 165, 166, 170n, 171n, 174, 179–89n, 193n, 195n
Jacobi, Friedrich, 174, 190, 191
Jakobson, Roman, 27
Jena romanticism, 11, 12, 13, 145, 146, 152, 157, 158, 160, 168n, 170n, 172n, 174, 184, 189, 190n, 194n
Johnson, Mark, 262n
Kakutani, Michiko, 269, 270, 280n
Kant, Immanuel, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17n, 23, 34–6, 38–40, 44, 45, 47, 48, 57n, 58n 73n, 75n, 82–85, 90, 94, 95n, 96n, 99, 107, 124, 143, 146–8, 154, 155, 159, 167, 168n, 170n, 172n, 173–9, 187, 188, 189, 190n–194n, 196–204, 206–11, 212n, 213n, 218, 220, 222, 223, 225, 226, 228, 232, 233, 235n, 236n, 237n, 238, 240, 242–6, 250–5, 257–8, 259n, 260n, 262n,
Keller, Pierre, 190
Kierkegaard, S., 70, 85, 193n, 195n
Kleist, Heinrich von, 70, 85, 193n, 195n
Kleingeld, Pauline, 190n
Kompridis, Nikolas, 6, 17n, 57n, 58n, 95n, 135n, 190n
Krauss, Rosalind, 168n
Kristeva, Julia, 236n
Kuzniar, Alice, 236n
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 98, 112n, 168n
Levinas, Emmanuel, 94, 95, 284, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 294, 296, 298n
Lackoff, George, 262n
Landy, Joshua, 117, 135n, 136n, 137n
Larmore, Charles, 13
lawfulness, 14, 239, 240, 242, 244, 247, 250, 251, 254, 255, 257, 258
Lear, Jonathan, 135n
Leibniz, Gottfried, 74, 174, 183, 194n, 197, 206, 225, 226, 227, 228, 245
Lessing, G.E., 145, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 160, 161, 166, 169n, 180
Lifton, Robert J., 269, 270, 280n
love, 24, 28, 29, 30, 83, 84, 90, 101, 104, 115, 116, 124–8, 131, 134, 136n, 210, 283, 285
Mähl, Hans-Joachim, 190n, 212n, 237n
Mann, Thomas, 55, 97, 112n, 161,
Marx, Groucho, 124
Marx, Karl, 36, 37, 57n, 75n, 76n, 242
material, 11, 12, 88, 89, 144, 145, 146, 148, 151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 163, 166, 167, 168n, 169n, 179, 245
McMullin, Ernan, 238, 239, 260n
meaning (meaningfulness), 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 33, 71, 73, 98, 99, 110, 116, 120, 123, 132, 133, 143–7, 149, 151, 152, 155–7, 161–8, 168n, 169, 171n, 172n, 202, 268, 272–4
mechanics, 240, 242, 245, 253, 262n
mechanism, 161, 165, 167, 224, 225, 228, 230, 233, 257
medium, 11, 12, 29, 54, 87–9, 144–9, 152, 160, 161, 164, 168n, 169n, 284
memory, 50, 116–18, 120, 123, 125, 137n, 138n
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 292, 293, 298n
Mill, John Stuart, 30
moral, 9, 34, 36, 47, 48, 83, 86, 90, 94, 95, 98–100, 107, 112, 119, 123, 145, 178, 188, 197, 202, 204, 207–11, 213n, 233, 238, 239
moral cosmology, 14, 238–44, 251–3, 255, 257, 258
Moran, Richard, 136n
modern, 3, 4, 7, 12, 23, 26, 35, 36, 39, 41, 43, 46, 55, 60, 65–7, 72, 75n, 98, 99, 101, 113, 120, 121–3, 127, 129, 131, 138, 143, 144, 145–50, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 161, 170, 179, 180, 187, 189, 190, 193, 194, 238, 239, 246, 265–9, 273, 276–8
modernism, 4, 133, 136n, 137n, 155, 157, 158, 164, 166, 167, 168n, 172, 241, 242
modernity, 1, 3–7, 16n, 32, 33, 35–43, 46, 47, 49, 53–6, 57n, 98, 100, 143, 148, 149, 152, 169n, 170n, 180
Moore, A.W., 191n
Most, Glenn, 135n
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 98, 112n, 168n
nature, 5, 9, 11–15, 17n, 34, 44, 74n, 97–9, 101–5, 107–9, 143–9, 151–3, 155, 156, 159, 160, 162–67, 168n, 169n, 170n, 177–80, 182, 210, 211, 218–35, 236n, 242, 245–8, 250–9, 265, 267–9, 276
naturalism/non-naturalism, 1, 2, 13, 16n, 165, 218, 224, 226, 233
science (natural science), 2, 4, 27n, 72, 134, 143, 186, 197, 199, 200, 201, 220, 224–6, 238, 240, 241, 244–7, 249–57, 259, 261n
Neuhouser, Frederick, 192n
new, the, 4, 6–8, 21–5, 32–48, 50–5, 58n, 59n, 60, 61, 66–8, 71, 72, 153
new beginnings, vii, xi, 6, 7, 32, 33, 35–40, 45–9, 51, 52
new possibilities, 4, 7, 47, 49, 54, 56, 61, 67, 71
Nehamas, Alexander, 135n, 139n
Newton, Isaac, 28, 164, 197, 212n, 224, 225, 240, 242–5, 251–4, 256, 247, 260n, 261n
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 9, 22–8, 30n, 31n, 40, 41, 46, 54, 57n, 68, 84, 85, 90, 95, 96, 99, 100, 113, 114, 135n, 139n, 159, 170n, 171n
normative formations, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74n
normativity, 1, 7, 11, 33–5, 37, 39, 46–9, 155, 156, 161, 185, 186
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), 12, 13, 147, 153, 164, 165, 169n, 170n, 171n, 173, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 183–6, 190, 191n, 193n, 194n, 196–207, 210, 211, 212n, 217, 222, 225, 232, 235n, 236n, 237n
novelty, 36–41, 43, 54, 57n, 58n, 60–3, 67, 68, 72, 73
ordinary, the, 5, 9, 15, 16, 17, 29, 98, 99, 102, 104, 105, 109–11, 184, 197, 202, 205, 244, 258, 285–7, 289, 290, 295, 296
originality, 9, 100, 101, 110, 150
Ortega y Gasset, José, 128,
Pagels, Heinz R., 258
Painter of Modern Life, The (Baudelaire), 52, 53, 59n
Parsons, Howard L., 297n
Pattern Recognition (Gibson), 44–6, 58
Pavel, Thomas, 135n, 138n, 139n
Peckham, Morse, 235n
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel), 68, 69, 70, 74n, 75n, 185
philosophical romanticism, xi, 2–6, 8, 12, 15, 16n, 184
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein), 10, 26, 97, 110, 112n
‘philosopher of the future’, 46, 47
philosophy (relation to time, task of, origins of), 1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10–12, 14–16, 22, 23, 25–30, 33–4, 52–6, 57n, 59n, 64, 81–2, 108–11, 113, 152–4, 156, 157, 160, 166, 171n, 173, 177, 180, 181, 186, 193n, 198, 201–3, 211, 282–4, 286, 288–90, 294–6, 297n
Philosophy of Right (Hegel), 70, 74n, 76n, 83, 95n
Pippin, Robert, 1, 9, 10, 14, 17n, 34, 57n, 48n, 168n, 190n
Plato, 23, 27, 28, 82, 130, 183, 208, 210, 249, 271, 282–4, 291, 293, 296
poetry, 12, 13, 27, 106, 113, 145, 146, 148, 149–52, 154–8, 160, 161, 164–8, 169n, 177, 180, 181, 183, 185, 202, 274, 286, 297n
possibility, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 24, 27, 29, 30n, 34, 36, 38, 40–2, 45–50, 52, 54, 55, 61, 63, 66, 70, 81, 82, 85, 87, 89, 91–4, 128, 144, 154, 156, 158, 161, 164, 165, 167, 175, 177, 181, 182, 193n, 221, 255, 260n, 278
practical identity, 114, 120, 121, 127, 128, 132, 133, 134
presence, 8, 14, 15, 62, 68, 71, 75n, 158, 247–50, 257–9, 280, 287, 289
present, the, 4, 7, 23, 36–9, 41, 47, 53, 57n, 59n, 74n, 242, 248
process, 61–73, 73n, 74n, 76n, 88, 92, 99, 153, 205
Proust, Marcel, 10, 14, 114–17, 119–27, 130, 132–35n, 136n, 137n, 138n, 139n, 140n, 155
Rawls, John, 35
reason, 1, 3, 10, 11, 34–6, 38–41, 45, 47, 52, 82–4, 89–94, 96n, 143–8, 152, 155, 159, 162, 168n, 170n, 171n, 176, 178, 185, 187, 191, 198, 201–3, 206–11, 219–21, 233, 235, 236n, 254, 255, 292
receptivity, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 54, 56, 59, 83, 88, 108, 257
reflective commitment, 86, 87, 89, 91
Reinhold, K.A., 174–6, 190n, 191n, 192n
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust),
Resnais, Alain, 29
Richards, Robert J., 255, 256, 262n
romanticism, 11–13, 15, 16n, 27, 55, 139, 147, 152, 157, 158, 160, 163, 165–7, 168n, 169n, 171n, 172n, 181, 182, 184, 186, 193n, 194n, 195n, 198, 203, 205, 206, 218, 233, 240, 241
Rosen, Charles, 194n
Rothenberg, David, 297n
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 9, 99, 113, 206–10
Ryan, Lawrence, 235n
Sandkühler, Hans Jörg, 261n
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 70–2, 75n, 77, 113, 119, 134, 135n, 139n
Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, 193n
Schelling, F.W.J., 13, 14, 17n, 147, 173, 178, 179, 217, 221–5, 232, 234, 235n, 236n, 237n, 240, 242, 246, 250–8, 261n, 252n
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 182, 195n, 225, 236n, 237n
Schiller, Friedrich, 83, 96n, 108, 145, 147, 148, 155, 156, 160, 166, 167, 169n, 178, 180, 184, 188, 191n, 256
Schlegel, Friedrich, 11, 12, 112, 145, 147–53, 155–63, 166n, 169n, 170n, 171n, 172n, 173, 174, 176, 179, 180–9, 190n, 191n, 193n, 194n, 195n, 207, 212n, 217, 222, 225, 232, 234, 235, 236n, 237n
self-determination, 8, 10, 13, 81–8, 90, 93–5, 234, 257
selfhood, 9, 70, 71, 100, 102, 105–7, 109–11, 116
self-identity, 68, 75n, 116, 121, 124, 126, 132
self-knowledge, 50, 114, 115, 118–20, 134, 135, 135n, 137n, 200, 203, 206, 220, 221, 228
Shakespeare, William, 60, 110, 150, 153, 162, 297n
skepticism, 12, 22, 27, 40, 41, 52, 58n, 61, 75n, 129, 172n, 174, 188, 191n, 193n, 207, 294
social identity, 9, 101, 102, 106, 111
Socrates, 24, 82, 113, 282, 283
Sömmerring, Thomas, 199, 200, 203, 212n
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 9, 10, 14, 97, 100–11, 112n
Spinoza, Benedict de, 13, 74n, 162, 217–22, 225–30, 232–4, 235n, 249, 250
spontaneity, 13, 34, 35, 42, 47, 48, 57n, 58n, 83, 87, 110, 170n, 192n, 233–5
Stockman, Alois, 235
Stone, Lawrence, 281n
subject-object identity, 220, 221, 222, 228
subjectivity, 9–12, 64, 66, 69, 70, 94, 97, 100, 101, 106, 114, 143, 145–9, 156, 169n, 173–7, 179, 180, 185, 187, 190n, 191n, 192n, 196, 217, 229, 291, 292
Szondi, Peter, 171n, 172n, 195n
Taylor, Charles, 1, 49, 58n, 59n, 98, 99, 112n, 178
technicity, 266, 268–71, 274, 280
technological style, 15, 267, 268, 278
technology, 15, 138, 241, 259, 265–73, 277, 279, 281n
things, xi, 3–6, 14–16, 25, 92, 100, 171n, 179, 187, 191n, 196, 222, 227, 234, 240, 244, 245, 247, 249, 256, 265, 268, 269, 271–80, 283–95, 298
things thinging, 276, 277, 280, 281n
Thoreau, David, 21, 22, 26, 27, 30, 30n
time, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 21, 23, 25, 32–6, 41, 43, 44, 49, 53, 54–6, 71, 75n, 115, 116, 119, 122, 126–8, 130, 138, 139, 204
Vogler, Candace, 135n
Wagner, Richard, 22
Walzel, Oskar, 235n
Watson, Stephen, 190n
Weininger, Otto, 107
Weir, Allison, 59n
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von, 249, 261n
Wellek, René, 235n
Whedon, Joss, 57n
Whitehead, Alfred North, 74n, 77n
Wilde, Oscar, 113
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Goethe), 153, 154, 157, 241, 260n
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 9, 10, 16, 26, 28, 30, 54, 76n, 87, 997, 106–11, 111n, 112n
Woolf, Virginia, 281n
Wordsworth, William, 2
“world disclosers”, 15, 265, 270, 273, 275, 277–80
Zucker, Francis J., 261