Crossing the Threshold

Preface

Prologue

Imagining Cosmos, Theos, and Anthropos in Post-Kantian Process Philosophy

Chapter 1  

Kant as Guardian of the Threshold of Imagination

1.1 Whitehead, Schelling, and the Aftermath of Kant

1.2 The Kantian Mode of Thought

1.2.1 Thinking

1.2.2 Desiring

1.2.3 Feeling

Chapter 2

Inverting Kant: From a Mechanistic to an Organic Cosmology

2.1 The Transmutation of Kant's "Refutation of Idealism": From Subject-Substance Correlation to Process-Relational Creativity

2.2 From Geometric Conditions of Possibility to Genetic Conditions of Actuality

Chiasmus

Descendental Aesthetic in Schelling and Whitehead: Crossing the Kantian Threshold

Chapter 3

Descendental Philosophy and Aesthetic Ontology: Reimagining the Kantian Mode of Thought

3.1 Aesthetic Ontology and Nietzsche's Encounter with Nihilism

3.2 Aesthetic Ontology in Sallis' Elemental Phenomenology

3.3 Aesthetic Ontology in Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism

Chapter 4 

Etheric Imagination in Naturphilosophie: Physics of the World-Soul

4.1 Traces of the Ether in Kant's Opus Postumum

4.2 Etheric Imagination in Schelling and Whitehead

4.3 Nature Philosophy as "Spiritual Sensation"

4.4 Etheric Imagination and Vegetal Metaphysics

Epilogue  

Incarnational Process Philosophy in the Worldly 

Religion of Schelling, Whitehead, and Deleuze

References

Index