Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Politics and Nature in Montesquieu -- 2 Husserl's Conception of the Life-World -- 3 Kant and Heidegger: Transcendental Alternatives to Aristotle -- 4 Wittgenstein, Strauss, and the Possibility of Philosophy -- 5 Moore on Common Sense -- 6 Austin and Ordinary Language -- 7 What Do We Talk About? -- 8 The Attributes of Ordinary Experience -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Index.