Thinking Philosophy Anew 1
Appearance and Being 2
New Realism 5
The Plurality of Worlds 8
Less than Nothing 11
I What is this Actually: the World? 16
You and the Universe 21
Materialism 28
The World is Everything that is the Case 32
Constructivism 38
Philosophers and Physicists 44
II What is Existence? 50
The Super-Object 53
Monism, Dualism, Pluralism 56
Absolute and Relative Differences 61
Fields of Sense 65
III Why the World Does Not Exist 73
The Super-Thought 78
Nihilism and Non-Existence 81
The External and the Internal World 91
IV The Worldview of Natural Science 99
Naturalism 106
Monism 111
The Book of the World 115
Subjective Truths 126
Holzwege 131
Science and Art 137
V The Meaning of Religion 146
Fetishism 154
The Infinite 162
Religion and the Search for Meaning 168
The Function of God 178
VI The Meaning of Art 184
Ambivalences 186
On Sense and Reference 190
The Demon of Analogy 194
Reflexivity 197
Diversity 204
VII Closing Credits: Television 209
A Show about Nothing 212
The Senses . . . 215
. . . and the Meaning of Life 220
Notes 222
Glossary 231
Index of Names 237