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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Toward a Concept of Metaphysics | |
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| Its Origins | |
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| Parmenides: The Evidence of Being | |
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| The Fragmentary and Almost Incomprehensible Character of Pre-Platonic Thought | |
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| The Context of Presocratic Thinking on Nature | |
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| An Oral, Therefore Poetic, Culture | |
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| A Goddess's Revelation | |
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| The Enigma of Being | |
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| The Legacy of Parmenides' Onto-Theology | |
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| The Sophistic Crisis: Human Discourse Left to Its Own Devices | |
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| Plato: The Hypothesis of the Idea | |
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| The Indirect Character of Plato's Writings | |
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| Parmenides' Legacy | |
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| Being Attentive to the Eidos | |
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| The Separation of the Ideas | |
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| An Effort at Reminiscence | |
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| Dialectics, or Minding Being Itself | |
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| The Exemplary Ideality of Mathematics | |
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| The "Metaphysical" Separation of the Line: Republic VI | |
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| The Idea of the Good's Supereminence | |
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| The Demiurge's Cosmos: The Same and the Different | |
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| The Principle of the One in Plato's Academy | |
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| Aristotle: The Horizons of First Philosophy | |
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| The Text and Object of Metaphysics | |
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| A Science of First Principles | |
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| The Theory of Causes | |
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| It Is a Science of Being as Being | |
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| The Onto-Theological Perspective of Metaphysics E, 1 | |
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| The Many Meanings of Being | |
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| First Philosophy as Ousiology: Metaphysics Z | |
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| The Theology of Metaphysics � | |
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| The Last Summit of Classical Metaphysics: The Neoplatonic Eruption | |
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| Plotinus's Metaphysics of the One | |
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| Augustine's Christianization of Metaphysics | |
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| Metaphysics and Theology in the Middle Ages | |
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| A "Metaphysical" Era? | |
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| The Importance of Pistis | |
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| Anselm and the Ontological Argument | |
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| Avicenna: The Metaphysics of the Shifa | |
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| Averroes's Critique of Avicenna | |
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| The Object of Metaphysics According to Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Whether God Exists? The Five Ways | |
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| The Idea of a Scienria Transcendens in Scholastic Thought from Duns Scotus to Suarez: The Origin of Ontology | |
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| Descartes: First Philosophy According to the Cogito | |
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| Is There a Cartesian Metaphysics? | |
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| First Meditation: What Can Be Called Into Doubt, or Classical Metaphysics Brought Into Question | |
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| Second Meditation: I Think, I Am-the Metaphysics of the Cogito | |
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| Third Meditation: Concerning God, That He Exists-the Return to the Metaphysics of Divinity | |
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| The Legacy of Descartes's Double Metaphysics | |
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| Spinoza and Leibniz: The Metaphysics of Simplicity and Integral Rationality | |
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| Ethical Metaphysics: Spinoza | |
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| Leibniz and the Search for the Metaphysics of Substantial Forms | |
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| Kant: Metaphysics Turned Critical | |
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| Natural Metaphysics | |
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| Is Metaphysics Possible as Science? | |
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| Kant and the Ancients' Transcendental Philosophy: Phenomena and the Things in Themselves | |
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| Critique and Metaphysics | |
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| The Metaphysics of Freedom | |
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| The "Metaphysics" of the Highest Good | |
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| Can the Existence of God Be Demonstrated? | |
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| The Future of Metaphysics After Kant | |
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| Metaphysics After Kant? | |
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| Was There Any Metaphysics After Kant? | |
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| Science and System in Kant | |
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| The Idealist Dismissal of the Metaphysics of the Thing-in-Itself | |
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| Reinhold's First Philosophy | |
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| Fichte and the Metaphysics of the I | |
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| Schelling's Metaphysics of Identity | |
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| The Later Schelling's Metaphysics | |
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| Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit | |
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| Post-Hegelian Metaphysics: A Primitive State or an Artistic Affair | |
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| Heidegger: The Resurrection of the Question of Being in the Name of Overcoming Metaphysics | |
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| The Project of a Destruction of the History of Ontology | |
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| The Twofold Priority of the Question of Being | |
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| Metaphysics: The Experience of Our Being Par Excellence (1929) | |
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| The Onto-Theo-Logical Constitution of Metaphysics | |
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| The Technological and Nihilist Completion of Metaphysics | |
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| The Unsettling of the Principle of Reason | |
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| The Theological Scope of Heidegger's Overcoming of Metaphysics | |
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| A Secretly Metaphysical Philosophy? | |
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| On Metaphysics Since Heidegger | |
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| The Rediscovery of the History of Metaphysics | |
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| The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Existence: From Gilson to Sartre | |
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| The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Language: From Gadamer to Derrick | |
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| The Rediscovery of the Metaphysics of Transcendence: Levinas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |