Acknowledgements Abbreviations Aristotle Texts Cited Introduction: An Ancient Metaphysics of Non-Presence Chapter I. Modern and Postmodern Philosophies of Time and Temporality 1. Modern Time as Either Objective or Subjective: Descartes, Newton, Kant, Husserl 2. Modern Time Imposed on the Aristotelian Text 3. Post-Modern Temporality: Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger Chapter II. Aristotle's Dialectic as Proto-Phenomenological Method 1. Endoxa , Phenomenality, and the Dialectical Path in the Topics 2. Aristotle's Criticisms of 'Dialectic' 3.

Dialectic and the Natural Path in the Physics 4. Phainomena and Legomena as Starting Points for Dialectic Chapter III. Staging Tragic Temporality in the Poetics 1. Seeing the Telos at the Moment of Genesis 2. The Birth of Tragedy 3. Tragic Theôria , Between Cognitivist and Non-Cognitivist Approaches 4. Mimêsis , Manthanein , and Human Nature 5. The Mimesis of Praxis as Complete, Whole, and of Some Magnitude Conclusion Chapter IV.

Living with Tragic Temporality in the Ethics 1. The Rational Foundation of Morality for Kant 2. Pierre Hadot and Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life 3. Living Between the Past and Future Good 4. On the Intellectualism of Ethics in Plato's Dialogues 5. The Temporality of Phronêsis 6. Past and Future as Sources of Ethical Judgment Conclusion: The Phenomenology of Chronos in Physics, Book IV.10-14 Bibliography Index.