Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coleridge among the spectra -- Purple haze -- Thoughts and things -- Contemporary theories of derealization and mistrust -- Appearance and acceptance in Kant -- From mere to necessary appearance -- No fault -- The right to a phenomenal world -- Legalize it -- No right : phenomenality and self-denial in Nietzsche -- Genealogy of phenomenality -- Stolen phenomenality -- The disappearance of appearance -- Court of appeal or Adorno -- Critique of facticity -- Illusion in total illusion -- Circus colors -- Court of appeal.

"In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world.