Yu Wujin

　　School of Philosophy, Fudan University

　　Abstract:So far, three reversals have occurred in the history of Western metaphysics. The first was the reversal from the “metaphysics of presence” represented by Platonism to the “metaphysics of subjectivity” represented by Descartes, Kant and Hegel. The second occurred within the framework of the metaphysics of subjectivity and marked the transformation from the “metaphysics of reason” represented by Descartes, Kant and Hegel to the “metaphysics of will” represented by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The third reversal was from the “metaphysics of being-there” of the earlier phase of Heidegger’s philosophy to his later “metaphysics of the world-fourfold.”

　　Keywords: metaphysics of presence, metaphysics of subjectivity, metaphysics of reason, metaphysics of will, metaphysics of being-there, metaphysics of the worldfourfold