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Tables of Contents for Tradition(S)
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Abbreviations
viii
Preface
xi
Introduction: Our `Reciprocal Rejoinder' with the Past: On Heidegger's Erwiderung
1
20
Traditions Traditio
21
64
On the Figures of Tradition
After Strange Gods
On the Sayable and the Said
On the Translation of the Ancients
Ransacking the Ancient Ruins of Prudence: On the Renovatio of the Vernacular
Ordo Traditionis
Ars Analytica (and) Trauerspiel
The Wel Ordynat and the Every Dayes
The Prose of the World
Ars Memoriae and La recherche du temps perdu
On the Aftereffects of Tradition
Kant, the Architectonics of Reason, and the Ruins of the Ancient Systems: On the Symbolics of Law
85
48
Tradition, the Prudence of Precedent, and the Requisites of Theory
The Experimentus Crucis: The Possibility of Freedom
A Hermenecutics of Freedom's Nature: the Typic's Gordian Knot
The Analogies of Form: the Permutation(s) of Categorical Imperative
The Symbiosis of Law and the Dialectics of Reason: The Refiguration of Transcendence
The Phenomenology of Kantian Conscience: Consciousness of the Moral Law
The Dangers of Civil Society and the Remainder of Modern Friendship
Critique, History, and Dialogue: the Humaniora and the Nonsubstitutability of Individuality
Beyond `Formalism'
On the Rights of Nature
133
72
Nature's Dissonance
The `Natural Histories' of Reason
Symbol, Expression, and Hieroglyph: Ciphering the Nature of the Self
Fichte, the Incorporation of Right, and the Body of Natural Right
Reason and the Disenchantments of Authority: Communicability and Alterity
Schelling, the Speculative Turn, and the Nature of Reason's `Unconscious'
The Scepter of Spinoza and the interpretatio naturae
Life as the Schema of Freedom
The Idealistic Dissolution, an Uneasy Legacy, and Straussian Historicism
At the Limits of Enlightenment
Heidegger's `Physis'
`Physics', the Boundaries of Theory, and the Ineluctability of the Calculable
Narrating Insufficiencies: A Topos That Is Not `Spatial'/A Polis That Is Not `Political'?
Hegel, the ``Plasticity'' of Character, and the Prose of the World
205
50
Shakespeare's Characteristic of Modern Individuality
Kant and the Signs of Character
Mimesis, Characteristic, Virtue
From Token to Type: Schlegel and the Explication of Character
Hegel and the Crisis of Legitimation: The Justification of Character
Person, Sittlichkeit, and Natural Law
The (Tragic) Education of Character and the Prose of the World
On the Exposition(s) of the Speculative
What Belies the Machinery (Raderwerk) of Dialectic: Beyond the Algorithmics of Character
Between Individual and Individuum: Beyond `Socratism'
Allegory and the Disenchantments of Justice
Friendship, Self-sufficiency, and Community: Interpretation and the ``Many-sidedness'' of Character
The Care for Self and the Remnant of Decency
Notes
255
57
Index
312