Abstract

THE TOPIC OF THIS PAPER is the end of metaphysics and the question of foundations. This issue is not phrased as an expression of conviction or hope, but as a question, or as several questions. Can metaphysics come to an end? What could its ending mean? Is its ending found in the questionableness of its foundations? If metaphysics came to its end, would there be no more metaphysics? Could it not end again, having already come to an end? Does the end of metaphysics mean the end of the idea of transcendence? Does its possible end mean that within metaphysics there is lodged the possibility of metaphysics coming to an end? Is that possibility the question of metaphysical foundations?