Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment Book

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The New Scientific Mind
	The Epistemological Rupture
	The Epistemological Obstacle
	The Ruses of Prejudice
	Naïvety
	Science and History
	Rationalism
	Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No
	Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique
	Against Substance
	Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique)
	Some Concluding Remarks
	Appendix to Chapter 1: ‘Surrationalism’ by Gaston Bachelard
2 The Imaginary
	The Turn
	The Imagining Faculty
	Imagination and Violence
	Narcissism
	The Body, Hylozoism
	A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind
	The Four Elements
	The Imaginary and Philosophy
	Overcoming Pain, Overcoming Death
	Topophilia
	Masculine Death, Feminine Death
3 The Poetics of Time
	The Instant
	Duration
	The Void
	Rhythm and Vibration
	Against Bergson
	The Void and Nothingness
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Bachelard and Atomism
	Some Opening Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi
	Democritus and Hylozoism
	The Atom in Contemporary Thought
	The Void
	The Four Atomist Systems
	Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology)
	Bachelard and Atomism (‘Metaphysics’)
	On Philosophical Aspirations
Notes
Bibliography
Index