Table of Contents:
  • PART I. CONSCIOUSNESS
  • CHAPTER 1: CONSCIOUSNESS, THE SELF AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
  • A. The Legacy of Kant
  • B. Ruskin and Schopenhauer as Educators
  • C. Philosophy and Self-Knowledge
  • D. The Self as a Unity of Creative activity
  • CHAPTER 2: ART AND LANGUAGE
  • A. The primacy of feeling
  • B. Nietzsche: The Artistic Process: Overcoming and Transfiguration
  • C Collingwood: The Artistic Process: Imagination and Expression
  • D. Decadence, Internalization, and Corrupt consciousness
  • CHAPTER 3: VALUATION AND PRESUPOSITION
  • A. The Creative Process as Development
  • B. Values as "Perspective of Interpretation"
  • C. Values as "Moral Prejudices"
  • D. Presupposing as Practical Thought
  • E. Presuppositions as Contexts of Judgment
  • F. Presuppositions and Religious Faith
  • CHAPTER 4: REASON AND REFINEMENT
  • A. Rational Consciousness
  • B. Nietzsche: Reason as "Refinement" and "Interpretation"
  • C. Nietzsche : Truth vs. Life
  • D. Collingwood: Reason as "Faith Cultivating Itself"
  • E. Collingwood: Reason as Inferential thought.
  • PART II. CONCPTUAL CHANGE
  • CHAPTER 5: HISTORY
  • A. Historical Consciousness
  • B. Collingwood: History as a Science
  • C. Nietzsche: "Our Sixth Sense, 'The Historical Sense'" CHAPTER 6: GENEALOGY
  • A. "Herd Instinct" and "Order of Rank"
  • B. "Historical Philosophizing"
  • C. Genealogy: Diagnostics
  • D. Genealogy: Processes of "Interpretation" CHAPTER 7: METAPHYSICS
  • A. Inter subjectivity and Systems of Thought
  • B. Reflective thought and "unconsciousness" Thought
  • C. Metaphysical Analysis and Reenactment
  • D. Metaphysical Inference and Processes of Development.
  • PART III. CREATIVE CHANGE
  • CHAPTR 8: NIETZSCHE: CREATIVE WILL
  • A. Nihilism: Nietzsche's Diagnosis
  • B. Nihilism: Nietzsche's Narrative
  • C. Trans valuation: principles of Reinterpretation
  • CHAPTER 9: COLLINGWOOD: PROGRESSIVE MIND
  • A. Nihilism and Barbarism
  • B. Reformation
  • C. Progress CHAPTER 10: SELF-CREATION AND SELF-REDEMPTION: DIONYSUS VERSUS THE CRUCIFIED
  • A. Philosophy and Self-Creation
  • B. Philosophy and Self-Redemption
  • C. Dionysus versus the Crucified.