Contents -- 1. Farewell to Matters of Principle (Another Autobiographical Introduction) -- 2. Competence in Compensating for Incompetence? (On the Competence and Incompetence of Philosophy) -- 3. Indicted and Unburdened Man in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy -- 4. The End of Fate? (Some Observations on the Inevitability of Things Over Which We Have No Power of Disposition) -- 5. In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking) -- 6. The Question, To What Question Is Hermeneutics the Answer? -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.