Exercises in Constructive Imagination

Preface. Origin of the Essays. Introduction. 1. Knowledge Versus Belief. 2. A Strange (?) Quantum World. 3. Promissory Names. 4. What Is Logic About? 5. Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities. What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel. 6. Discriminating From Within. 7. The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation. 8. Kant's Sadism. 9. Respect for Structure. 10. The End of Analysis. 11. Being-Idle. 12. Taking Care of Ethical Relativism. 13. Montaigne's Pre- and Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity. 14. An Oblique View. 15. Beyond Tolerance? 16. An Answer to the Question `Liberating the Future From the Past? Liberating the Past From the Future'. 17. Machiavelli, for Example. 18. The Degradation of Talent. 19. Philosophy and Literature in Calvino's Tales. 20. `I': J.D. Notes. Bibliography. Index.