On Descartes` Metaphysical Prism The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-Theo-logy in Cartesian Thought
- Chicago University of Chicago Press 1999
- 370p
includes index and biblioraphy
I. METAPHYSICS ¿1. An Undetermined Question ¿2. Metaphysics as Transgression ¿3. Two Decisions in Favor of a First Philosophy ¿4. Primacy and Universality: The Order and Being [1`etant] ¿5. The First Other II. ONTO-THEO-LOGY ¿6. Nothing Ontological ¿7. Principle and Causa Sui ¿8. The First Pronouncement about the Being of Beings: Cogitatio ¿9. The Second Pronouncement about the Being of Beings: Causa ¿10. A Redoubled Onto-theo-logy III. EGO ¿11. On the "Cogito, Sum" as a Primal Utterance ¿12. The Undetermined Equivalence of Being and Thought ¿13. The Egological Deduction of Substance ¿14. The Subsistent Temporality of the Ego ¿15. The Ego Outside Subsistence IV. GOD ¿16. The Question of the Divine Names ¿17. Substance and Infinity ¿18. Power and Perfections ¿19. The System of Contradictions ¿20. The Exceptional Name V. OVERCOMING ¿21. Pascal within Cartesian Metaphysics ¿22. Descartes Useless and Uncertain ¿23. The Distance between the Orders ¿24. The Ego Undone and the Decentering of the Self ¿25. The Destitution of Metaphysics