Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Metaphysics and the Equivocities of Dialectic -- 1. Being, Determination, and Dialectic: On the Sources of Metaphysical Thinking -- 2. Thinking on the Double: The Equivocities of Dialectic -- 3. Surplus Immediacy, Metaphysical Thinking, and the Defect(ion) of Hegel's Concept -- Part 2. Metaphysics in the Wake of Dialectic -- 4. Is There Metaphysics after Critique? -- 5. Metaphysics and the Intimate Strangeness of Being: Neither Deconstruction nor Reconstruction -- Part 3. Metaphysics beyond Dialectic -- 6. Metaxological Metaphysics and the Equivocity of the Everyday: Between Everydayness and the Edge of Eschatology -- 7. Pluralism, Truthfulness, and thePatience of Being -- 8. The Confidence of Thought: Between Belief and Metaphysics -- 9. Analogy, Dialectic, and Divine Transcendence: Between St. Thomas and Hegel -- 10. Ways of Wondering: Beyond the Barbarism of Reflection -- Bibliography -- Index.