Part 1. Metaphysics and the equivocities of dialectic. Being, determination, and dialectic : on the sources of metaphysical thinking -- Thinking on the double : the equivocities of dialectic -- Surplus immediacy, metaphysical thinking, and the defect(ion) of Hegel's concept -- Part 2. Metaphysics in the wake of dialectic. Is there metaphysics after critique? -- Metaphysics and the intimate strangeness of being : neither deconstruction nor reconstruction -- Part 3. Metaphysics beyond dialectic. Metaxological metaphysics and the equivocity of the everyday : between everydayness and the edge of eschatology -- Pluralism, truthfulness, and the patience of being -- The confidence of thought : between belief and metaphysics -- Analogy, dialectic, and divine transcendence : between St. Thomas and Hegel -- Ways of wondering : beyond the barbarism of reflection.