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Under the sway of Platonism, we tend to associate contingency with the imperfect reign of particular things before our eyes, and universality with a more stable but remote order pulling the strings from afar. But what if it is the other way around? Could it be that we live in a world where no cosmic Law has ruled from the beginning of time, and that, for want of any Total Law, the only place left for universality to unfold is \u003ci\u003eright here\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing a sweeping intellectual arc from Plato through Kant and Hegel to the post-metaphysical thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, and building its case on the scientific revolutions from Copernicus onward, the book carries through an operation implicit in the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek. 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