Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Nihilism and Nietzsche's "Last Man"
The Crisis of Modernity
The "Mind's New Science"
The Mind's New Science and Genealogical Critique
Plato versus Homer
Nietzsche's Genealogical Critique of "Ascetic Values"
Reactive Nihilism and Its Progeny: The "Overman" versus the "Last Man"
2. Nietzsche's "Last Man" and Modernity
Marx, Lyotard, and the Metanarratives of Modernity
Modern Literature and Passive Nihilism
Philosophical Critics of Modernity: Heidegger, Horkheimer/Adorno, and Foucault
Gramsci's "Organic Intellectuals," "Performativity," and the Problem of Agency
3. The Psychology of the "Last Man"
Modern Psychology and the "Analytic Observer"
The Analytic Oberver as "Proto-Technocrat": From Behaviorism to the Computational Rationality of the Turing Machine
Cognitive Psychology and the Computational Model of Mind
4. The Science of the "Last Man"
The Analytic Observer and the "Received View" of Science
The "Received View" of Science
Cognitive Psychology and Scientific Explanation
The Weltanschauung View of Science
Weltanschauung and Social Discourse
5. The Self-Overcoming of the "Proto-Technocrat"
Cognitive Psychologists as Creators
Miller and Johnson-Laird's "Decompositional Odyssey" of the Proto-Technocrat
The Self-Overcoming of the Proto-Technocrat
Connectionism
Ecological Cognitivism
6. The Emergence of the Phenomenological Perceiver and the Circularity of Experimental Evidence in Cognitive Psychology
The Return to Presence
Merleau-Ponty and the Notion of the "Body-Subject"
The Circularity of Experimental Evidence in Cognitive Psychology
7. Cognitive Psychology and the Productive Dimension of Language
The Productive Dimension of Language
The Language of the "Proto-Technocrat": Procedural Semantics and Its Propositional Rivals
The Transformation of the Propositional View of Linguistic Meaning into the "Significative Intention" of the Body-Subject
8. Phenomenology, Post-Structuralism, and the Productive Dimension of Language
Language, Subjects, and Linguistic Agency
Phenomenology and the Limits of the "Primacy of Perception"
The Primacy of Discourse: Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida
The Limits of Discourse
9. Linguistic Agency and the Interplay of Voices
"Voice" and Linguistic Agency: Nuances on Bakhtin's Notion of "Heteroglossia"
Nihilism and "Oracles"
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
10. Beyond the "Last Man": Genealogical Psychology and Transfigurative Rationality
Genealogical Psychology
Transfigurative Rationality and Metaphor
Cognitive Psychology and Metaphor
Metaphor and Experimental Circularity in Cognitive Psychology
Beyond the "Last Man"
Notes
References
Index