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A THING OF THIS WORLD
Topics in Historical Philosophy

General Editors David Kolb


John McCumber

Associate Editor Anthony J. Steinbock


A THING OF
THIS WORLD
A History of Continental
Anti-Realism

Lee Braver

Northwestern University Press


Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
www.nupress.northwestern.edu

Copyright © 2007 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2007. All rights


reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data


Braver, Lee.
A thing of this world : a history of continental anti-realism / Lee Braver.
p. cm. — (Topics in historical philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2379-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8101-2379-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2380-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8101-2380-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Knowledge, Theory of. 2. Realism. 3. Continental philosophy. I. Title.
II. Series: Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy.
BD161.B73 2007
149'.2—dc22
2007006120

oThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper
for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.
For my mother, who taught me how to read
Truth is a thing of this world.
—Michel Foucault

The all-decisive question . . . [is] What happens when the distinction


between a true world and an apparent world falls away? What becomes
of the metaphysical essence of truth?
—Martin Heidegger
Contents

Acknowledgments xi

List of Abbreviations xiii

Guide to Matrices xix

Introduction: The Kantian Root 3

1 Defining Realism 13

Part 1. The Kantian Paradigm

2 Kant’s Revolution 33

3 Hegel: The Truth of the Whole 59

4 Nietzsche’s Will to Truth 114

Transition

5 Early Heidegger: Fundamental Ontology 163

Part 2. The Heideggerian Paradigm

6 Later Heidegger: “The Great Turning Around” 257

7 Foucault’s History of Truth 342

Post

8 Derrida 431

Conclusion: Anthropology from Two Kantian Points of View; or,


A Tale of Two Kants 497
Notes 515

Bibliography 559

Index 585
Acknowledgments

I must thank David Carr, who chaired the dissertation that was the seed
of this work and who taught me so much about how to read, think, and
write. John McCumber eased the process of publication greatly, and I
have learned a lot about philosophy from him too. I want to thank John
Koritansky and Rich Hall for reading and giving me helpful feedback on
portions of this book. The two anonymous readers for Northwestern Uni-
versity Press combined to give me just the comments I needed. I owe a par-
ticularly high debt of gratitude to Colin Anderson for reading the entire
manuscript and offering extensive and detailed comments which greatly
improved its quality. Conversations with him have repeatedly refined my
views and stimulated new thoughts. And I want to thank my wife, Yvonne,
for her patience and support during the many hours I spent on this book.

xi
Abbreviations

Donald Davidson
EAE Essays on Actions and Events, 2nd ed.
“Ext” “Externalisms,” in Interpreting Davidson, Kotatko et al. 2001
ITI Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, 2nd ed.
“KVP” “Comments on Karlovy Vary Papers,” in Interpreting Davidson, Kotatko et al.
2001
PDD Replies to papers, in The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Hahn 1999
Prob Problems of Rationality
RD Replies to papers, in Reflecting Davidson, Stoecker 1993
“SCT” “The Structure and Content of Truth”
SIO Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
TLH Truth, Language, and History
TMK Replies to papers, in Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge,
Zeglen 1999

Jacques Derrida
AF The Archaeology of the Frivolous
Ap Aporias
Dis Dissemination
DN Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
EO The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation
FWT For What Tomorrow . . . A Dialogue
G Of Grammatology
Gl Glas
GT Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money

xiii
xiv
ABBREVIATIONS

Ltd Limited Inc


MO Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin
MP Margins of Philosophy
OS Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question
PC The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
PoI Points . . . Interviews, 1974–1994
Pos Positions
SNS Spurs/Nietzsche’s Styles
“SOR” “Sending: On Representation,” in Ormiston and Schrift 1990
SP Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs
TFS A Taste for the Secret
TP The Truth in Painting
WD Writing and Difference

René Descartes
PWD The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, 3 vols.

Michel Foucault
Ab Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
AK The Archaeology of Knowledge
BC The Birth of the Clinic
CS The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
DP Discipline and Punish
EW Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, 3 vols.
FL Foucault Live
FR The Foucault Reader
FS Fearless Speech
HB Herculine Barbin
Herm The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981–1982
HS The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction
xv
ABBREVIATIONS

LCP Language, Counter-Memory, Practice


MC Madness and Civilization
“MF” “Foucault, Michel, 1926–”; written under the pseudonym Maurice Flo-
rence; republished in Gutting 1994
MIP Mental Illness and Psychology
OT The Order of Things
PK Power/Knowledge
PoT The Politics of Truth
PP Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
PPC Politics, Philosophy, Culture
RC Religion and Culture
SMD “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976
TS Technologies of the Self
UP The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

G. W. F. Hegel
DFS The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy
HL Hegel’s Logic, trans. William Wallace (cited by page number and section
number)
PS Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (cited by page number and sec-
tion number)
RH Reason in History

Martin Heidegger
AM Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” Q 1–3
BCo Basic Concepts
BP The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
BQ Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected “Problems” of “Logic”
BT Being and Time (cited by page numbers of the English and German edi-
tions, respectively)
BW Basic Writings, rev. ed.
xvi
ABBREVIATIONS

CP Contributions to Philosophy (cited by page number and section number)


DT Discourse on Thinking
EF The Essence of Human Freedom: An Introduction to Philosophy
EGT Early Greek Thinking
EHP Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry
EP The End of Philosophy
ET The Essence of Truth
FCM The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
FoS Four Seminars
H Heraclitus Seminar
HCT History of the Concept of Time
HH Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister”
HPS Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”
ID Identity and Difference
IM An Introduction to Metaphysics
IPR Introduction to Phenomenological Research
KPM Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 5th enl. ed.
MFL The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
MHC Martin Heidegger in Conversation
Mi Mindfulness
N Nietzsche, 4 vols.
OBT Off the Beaten Track
“OG” “‘Only a God Can Save Us’: The Der Spiegel Interview”
OHF Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity
OWL On the Way to Language
P Parmenides
PIK Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”
PlS Plato’s “Sophist”
PLT Poetry, Language, Thought
Pm Pathmarks
xvii
ABBREVIATIONS

PR The Principle of Reason


PT The Piety of Thinking
QT The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
TB On Time and Being
TDP Towards the Definition of Philosophy
WCT What Is Called Thinking?
WIP What Is Philosophy?
WT What Is a Thing?
Zo Zollikon Seminars: Protocols—Conversations—Letters

Immanuel Kant
C1 Critique of Pure Reason (cited by A and B, representing the original pagi-
nation of the 1st and 2nd editions, respectively)
C2 Critique of Practical Reason, 3rd ed. (cited by page numbers of the English
and German editions, respectively)
FMM Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, 2nd ed. (cited by page number of
the English and German editions, respectively)
PFM Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (cited by page number of the En-
glish and German editions, respectively)

Friedrich Nietzsche (unless otherwise noted, all numbers refer to section


number)
A The Antichrist, in The Portable Nietzsche
BGE Beyond Good and Evil
D Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
EH Ecce Homo (cited by chapter and section)
GM On the Genealogy of Morals (cited by essay and section)
GS The Gay Science
HATH Human, All Too Human
TI Twilight of the Idols, in The Portable Nietzsche (cited by chapter and section)
WTP The Will to Power
Z Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche (cited by part, chapter,
and section, where applicable)
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