1. Forming the mind of modernity 1 -- 2. Kant's debt to Leibniz -- 3. Kant : voice of the German Enlightenment -- 4. Two kinds of transcendental objectivity -- 5. Royce's pragmatic idealism and existential phenomenology -- 6. Heidegger's use of Kant in Being and time -- 7. Heidegger's ontology and the Copernican revolution -- 8. Founding an existential ethic -- 9. The hermeneutic structure of resoluteness -- 10. Some dimensions of 'heritage' -- 11. Rousseau's civil religion -- 12. The conditions of freedom : a new world order.

