Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Deconstructing Action

2. Theory of the Texts

Part One

Genealogy of Principles

I. Understanding History through Its Reversals

3. The Puma-Shaped City

4. The Rise and Decline of Principles

II. Understanding Practice through the "Turning"

5. Practical Philosophy and the Hypothesis of Closure

6. The Closure as the Withering of the Pros Hen Relation

III. Genealogy of Principles and Anti-Humanism

7. A Threefold Break with "Humanism"

8. A Threefold Break with Principial Origins

Part Two

The "Very Issue" of Phenomenology: The Economies of Presencing

IV. Mutations of Phenomenological Transcendentialism

9. From Subjectivity to Being-There

10. From Menschentum to "Thinking"

V. Deconstruction of the Political

11. Deconstructing the Substantialist Patterns

12. Deconstructing the Ontic Origin

Part Three

The Origin Is Said in Many Ways

VI. Arche: The Kinetic Paradigm of Origin

13. The Causal Concept of Arche

14. The Teleocratic Concept of Arche

VII. Princeps and Principium: Time Forgotten

15. From the Principle of Essences to the Principle of Propositions

16. From the Principle of Propositions to the Epochal Principles

VIII. Anfang and Ursprung: The Temporal Difference

17. The Vocabulary

18. ‘Original’ Origins, or How the New Comes About in History

19. The ‘Originary’ Origin, or How Presencing Comes About

Part Four

Historical Deduction of the Categories of Presencing

IX. Table of the Categories of Presencing

20. The Categorial, the Noumenal, and the Empirical

21. A Reversal Undergone by the Puma-Shaped City

X. At the Presocratic Inception: The Prospective Categories

22. Econ

23. Phusis

24. Aletheia

25. Logos

26. Hen

27. Nous

XI. At the Technological End: The Retrospective Categories

28. The Will to Power

29. Nihilism

30. Justice

31. The Eternal Return

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