Preface Part I: Metaphysical Thinking and the Senses of Being 1. What is Metaphysical Thinking? Mind, Being, and the Between The Question of Being The Doubling of Metaphysical Perplexity Agapeic Astonishment Erotic Perplexity and the Completion of Metaphysics Metaphysical Thinking and Univocity Metaphysical Thinking and Equivocity Metaphysics and Transcendental Thought Metaphyscial Thinking and Hegelian Idealism Metaxological Metaphysics and Born-Again Perplexity The Others of Metaphysics - Art, Religion, and Science Metaphysical Thinking and Being Between 2. Being and Univocity Prelapsarian/Postlapsarian Univocity Ontological and Logical Univocity Cartesian Univocity Post-Cartesian and Transcendental Univocity Univocity and the Universal Mechanism The Self-Deconstruction of the Mechanism of Univocity Beyond Univocity 3. Being and Equivocity Univocity, Correctness, and the Milieu of Truth The Indispensability of the Equivocal Equivocity and the Aesthetics of Being The Mathesis of Nature, the Poiesis of Naturing The Equivocal Flower: On the Orchid The Acme of Equivocity: The Human Being Philosophers: Equivocaters on the Equivocal Equivocity and Incommensurability 4. Being and Dialectic The Equivocity of the Equivical - A Pointer Beyond Dialectic and the Philosophical Tradition Dialectic and Beings Dialectic and Human Beings Dialectic and the Happening of the Between Hegelian Dialectic, Being and the Between 5. Being and the Metaxological The Plurivocity of Being and the Metaxological The Metaxological and the Play of Indeterminacy and Determination Beings and the Show of Excess - Singularity and the "That it is" Excess, Mindfulness, and the Human Being The Metaxological and the Community of Beings The Metaxological and the Happening of the Between The Way of Transcendence - From Metaphor to Hyperbole Part II: Being and the Between - A Metaphysics 6. Origin The Question of Origin Mindfulness, Transcendence, and Finitude Univocity, Origin, and the One Antinomy, Origin, and the One The Dialectical One, the Erotic Origin The Exceeding One, the Agapeic Origin What Then? 7. Creation: The Universal Impermanence Creation and Beginning Again The Elemental and Rapturous Univocity Heterogeneity and Equivocal Process Mediated Becoming and Dialectic The Middle World of Creation/The Universal Impermanence 8. Things Things and Mere Things The Unity and Spread of Things The Plurivocal Presencing of Things Overdetermined Presencing/The Intimacy of the Proper Things and Community 9. Intelligibilities The Question of Intelligibility Intelligibility Produced and Inherent: The Possibilizing of Possibility Darwing a Line - Intelligibility and Univocity Intelligibility and the Challenge of Equivocity - On Contradiction, Sufficient Reason, Causality Intelligibility and Dialectic Intelligibility and the Metaxological 10. Selves Selving The Idiot Self and Univocity Aesthetic Selving and Equivocity Aesthetic Selving and Mediation: Desire, Imagination, Memory Erotic Selving and Dialectic Agapeic Selving and the Metaxological 11. Communities Being Related Nature and Community Self-Relating Sociability and Communicative Doubling The Community of Distracted Desire The Community of Erotic Sovereignty The Community of Agapeic Service Transformed Relations and Agapeic Participation 12. Being True Truth and Being True Truth, Correspondence, and Univocity Truth, Equivocity, and Skepticism Truth, Coherence, and Power Truthfulness and the Agapeic Service of Transcendence Truthfulness and the Excess of the Origin 13. Being Good Being True, Transcendence, Being Good Ontological Goodness and Nihilism Evil and the Equivocity of the Good Dialectic and the Good Beyond the Dialectic of the Good Good beyond Good and Evil The Agape of the Good Service of the Good Nihilism Index