Lawrence E. Cahoone is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.

Preface: The Dilemma

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Modernity, Philosophy, and Culture

The Modernity Debate

Philosophy as a Cultural Process

Part One

The Dynamics Of Subject And Object

Introduction to Part One

1. Subjectivism and the Transcendental Synthesis

The Pervasiveness of Subjectivism

The Subjectivist-Transcendental Synthesis

2. Forging the New Standpoint: Descartes

The Dichotomy

The Transcendental Bridge

3. Recasting the Synthesis: Kant

The Two Orders of Knowing

Relating the Two Orders

4. Philosophical Narcissism and the Radicalization of Subjectivism

The Fortunes of Subjectivism

The Psycho-Dynamic Concept of Narcissism

Philosophical Narcissism

The Dialectic of Philosophical Narcissism

5. Subjectivism without the Object: Husserl

The Project of Husserl's Late Work

The Failure of Intersubjectivity in the Cartesian Meditations

The Uninhabited Ego

Husserl and Sartre

The Enigmas of Phenomenology

Conclusion

6. Subjectivism without the Subject: Heidegger

The Project of Being and Time

Dasein and Disclosedness

Levinas and the Emptiness of Dasein

The Collapse of Heidegger's Concept of World

Conclusion

Part Two

The Theory of Modernity

Introduction to Part Two

7. Enlightenment and Narcissism: Adorno, Horkheimer, and Lasch

The Dialectical Theory

A Flaw in the Theory

8. The Cultural Theory and the Rise of Anti-Culture

Cultural versus Dialectical Perspectives

Cultural Subjectivism and Anti-Culture

Part Three The Cultural Dimension

Introduction to Part Three

9. Anti-Culture and the Alleged Death of Philosophy

The Limits of Subjectivism

Anti-Cultural Philosophy

Post-Modernism

10. The Metaphysics of Culture: A Pluralist-Naturalist View

Integrity and Relation

The Concept of Culture

Culture and Mind: Winnicott, Cassirer, and Dewey

Culture and Nature

Epilogue: Humanism, Democracy, and Culture

Jackboots on the Stairs

Anti-Culture and American Democracy

Not an Epitaph

Notes

Bibliography

Index