Cover -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophy's Self-Image - Towards A Heuristics of Philosophical Life -- 1.1 Introductory comments to some important concepts for heuristics -- 1.2 The Novice's Experiences -- 1.3 Philosophy as Profession -- 1.4 The General Point of View and The History of Philosophy -- 1.5 Institutions of Philosophical Life -- 1.6 Pathos and Nihilism in Talking about Philosophy -- 1.7 The Possibility of a Heuristics of Philosophical Life -- 2. Methodological Thinking -- 2.1 The Idea of Logic -- 2.2 Philosophical Logic -- 2.3 The Heuristic Ideal of Method -- 2.4 The Cartesian Spirit -- 2.5 Heuristics and the Issue of Idealism -- 3. Pragmatic Thinking -- 3.1 Practice and Method -- 3.2 Practical Legitimation and Reflexive Legitimisation -- 3.2.1 Adorno - The Dialectical Path -- 3.2.2 Apel - The Path of Transcendental Moralism -- 3.2.3 Habermas - The Path of Entrusting Science -- 3.2.4 Rorty - The Personal Path -- 3.3 Between Scientific Solemnity and Scholarly Irony -- 3.4 Foundations of the Pragmatistic approach to Heuristics -- 3.5 Perspectives of Pragmatistic Heuristics -- 3.5.1 Heuristics of Philosophical Communication -- 3.5.2 The Ontology of Philosophy -- 4. Rhetorical Thinking -- 4.1 Cognition and Persuasion. The Duality of Rhetoric -- 4.2 Aristotle: Rhetoric in the System of Logical Knowledge -- 4.3 "Argumentum Ad Hominem" (Schopenhauer, Perelman, Heidegger) -- 4.4 Rhetoric and Hermeneutics (Gadamer) -- 4.5 The Significance of The Humanist Turn -- 4.6 Another Possibility: Nietzsche and The Rhetorical Nature of Language. The Non-Identity of Rhetoric -- 4.7 Plato and The Dialectic of Rhetoric -- 4.8 The other Side of Rhetorical Heuresis -- 4.9 What Rhetoric Teaches Heuristics -- 4.10 Towards Rhetorical Heuristics -- 5. Hermeneutic Thinking.

5.1 Problems with Talking about Hermeneutics -- 5.2 Popular Hermeneutic Consciousness and its Limits -- 5.3 The Abundance of Dilthey's Heuresis -- 5.3.1 The Concept of Life -- 5.3.2 The Universality of Research - Tempering The Difficulties of Idealism -- 5.3.3 Speculativeness and Respect for the Reality of Life -- 5.4 Heidegger: The Existential and Ontological Orientation of Hermeneutics -- 5.5 Gadamer's Hermeneutic Synthesis -- 5.5.1 The Hermeneutics of Prudence -- 5.5.2 The Ideal of Participation (The Gadamerian Thing Itself) -- 5.5.3 Metaphysical Inclinations and an Ambivalent Attitude to Transcendentalism -- 5.6 Hermeneutics and The Power of Reason (In The Light of Gadamer's Synthesis) -- 5.7 A Critical Comment and Postulate for Heuristics -- 5.8 On The Margins: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- 6. Structuralist Thinking -- 6.1 The Intellectual Mood -- 6.2 The Integrating Power of Structure -- 6.3 From Heuristics of Rejection to Heuristics of Doubling -- 6.4 Two Series in Structuralism -- 6.5 Mathematical Inspirations -- 6.6 The Philosophy of Difference - Deleuze and Derrida -- 6.7 The Nietzschean Calling -- 6.8 Deconstruction -- 7. Heuristics and Self-Knowledge -- 7.1 Introduction to The Question of The Neutrum -- 7.2 The Neutrum -- 7.3 The Faces of Heuristics -- 7.3.1 Heuristics as Optimal Philosophical Speech and Critique -- 7.3.2 Heuristics as Knowledge -- 7.3.3 Heuristics as a Mirror of Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.