Some chapters are revisions of articles previously published in various sources from 1987 to 1991
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index
Introduction: What is Post-Rational Criticism? - 1 -- - 1 - The Transcendentalist Impulse in the Projects of Contemporary Criticism - 25 -- - 2 - Hegel's Concept of the Dissolution of Art - 67 -- - 3 - William Carlos Williams and the Art of Infinite Spirituality - 93 -- - 4 - The Metaphysics of Deconstruction - 101 -- - 5 - Ideology and the New Pragmatism - 117 -- - 6 - The Self-Contradictions of Pragmatism - 137 -- - 7 - Postmodern Fantasies of Pluralism - 155 -- - 8 - The Crisis of Reason in Contemporary Thought - 177 -- - 9 - Concrete History or Mere Hologram?: Hegel versus the New Historicism - 211 -- - 10 - Santayana's Critique of Transcendentalism - 231 -- - 11 - Hegel and Santayana on the Nature of Philosophy - 245 -- - Appendix - Theses for the Critique of the Post-Rational Critique of Reason - 271
