Preface
Abbreviations of Works Cited
1. Introduction: Of an Ancient Desire
I. Theoria and Philosophy: Heidegger and Aristotle
2. Vision in Theory and Praxis: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle (1924)
The End of Desire
The Complication of Praxis
The Glance of the Eye
Athanatizein
3. The Genesis of Theory: Being and Time (1927)
The Natural Genesis of Theory
Dispersions of Vision: Theory, Praxis, Techne
The Existential Genesis of Theory
The Thematizing Projection of Things
Modification
4. Originary Praxis: The Trace of Phronesis in Being and Time
Originary Praxis and Authenticity
Seeing Oneself
The Time of the Augenblick
Retrospect on the 1922 Treatise on Aristotle
Augenblick and World
5. Theory and Praxis at the University: The Rectoral Address (1933)
II. The Transformation of Theoria
6. Technovision: Modern Science and Technology
The Age of the World Picture
The Contemplation of the Real
Grasping Things
Making Progress: The Future of Science
The Transformation of Presence: From Science to Technology
The Collapse of Causality
The End of Technology
The Turning of Presence at the End of Technology
III. The Threshold of Representation: The Augenblick in Heidegger's Reading of Nietzsche
7. Vision and the Enigma
IV. Originary Theoria
8. In the Presence of the Sensible: Vision and Ecstasis
Theoria in Retrospect: Philosophy, Science, and Curiosity
Theoria and Divinity: The Philosophical Turn
The Theoria of the Ancients
"To Things Their Look. . . ": The Origin of the Work of Art
The Look of the Other
Absence of the Body
Vision of Stillness
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects