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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: On Metaphor, Conscience, and Bindingness 3 1 Hobbes’s Leviathan: Conscience and the Concealments of Metaphor 19 2 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: The Performative Successes and Rhetorical Failures of Conscience 48 3 Heidegger’s Being and Time: Not “About” Being 80 Conclusion: The Frailties of Guarantee 104 Notes 111 Selected Bibliography 137 Index 154 Contents ...

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