The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Prolegomena
Introduction: The Enlightenment: A reconception of its fate and value
	1. On the Enlightenment’s fate and value
	2. The Enlightenment as ‘general intellect’
	3. Modernity: The Enlightenment invalidated
	4. The transvaluation of knowledge values: Knowledge as fatality
	5. Knowledge: Its cognitive adequacy; its sufficient reason
	6. Modernity: Parapraxis; the psychopathology of historicized life
	7. Enlightenment and Modernity: Their common conceptual field
	Notes
1 The Enlightenment and the fate of meaning
	1. The quest for conceptual contentment
	2. Enlightenment as dissent
	3. At the limits of comprehension
	4. Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the psychogenesis of nihilism
	Notes
2 The Enlightenment and the fate of history
	1. The sophism of historical continuity
	2. Historicist designs: Deterring conceptual experimentation
	3. Historicism: Its naïve form
	4. Historicism: Its sophistical form
	5. Modernity as discontinuity
	Notes
3 The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge
	1. Defining the intellectual-function
	2. The Enlightenment: Gauging the decline of Modernity (I)
	3. The Enlightenment: Gauging the decline of Modernity (II)
	4. Locations of the intellectual: Configurations of mind
	Notes
Conclusion
References
Index