Foreword xiRobert Delfino
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1On the Origin of Metaphysics
1From Sophía to Philosophía 11
2From Philosophy (philosophía) to Meta-physics (tà metà tà physiká) 22
3From tà metà tà physiká to Metaphysics 36
4The Autonomy of Metaphysics 58
5Ontology in the Middle Ages 61
Summary of Part 1 74
Part 2The Rise of Ontology
6Descartes and Malebranche—The Return of Augustinianism 77
7British Philosophy: The Marginalization of Metaphysics 82
8The Founders of Ontology: From Lorhard to Clauberg 90
9Ontology before Metaphysics: From Wolff to Kant 100
11The Apotheosis of Mathematics: Bolzano, Frege, and Meinong 117
12Phenomenology apart from Metaphysics: Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger 126
13Metaphysics as Ontology: Nicolai Hartmann 148
14Analytic Philosophy: A Metaphysics of Conceptual Schemata 155
15Metaphysics or Ontology of Process? 164
16Negative Ontology: Adorno 166
17Postmoderism: The End of Metaphysics, or the End of Ontology? 176
Summary of Part 2 184
Part 3Metaphysics or Ontology: Disputed Questions
18Being or the Concept of Being? 189
19Real Being or Possible Being? 210
20Existence: Act or Modus? 232
21Essence Instead of Being 263
22Ontology: Unreal Reality 302
23Ontology and the Object 315
24Intentionality: Outside of Reality 343
25Ontology and the Subject 356
26Ontology and System 370
28Metaphysics, Ontology, Onto-Theology? 421
Summary of Part 3 426
Conclusion 427
Bibliography 431
Index of Names 451
Index of Subjects 455