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Introduction: Aestheticizing Pragmatics. The Gamut of Pragmatics. Homo Economicus and Homo Sociologicus. Antilope, Albertine and Penelope: Three Little Ontologies. Modus Logicus and Modus Aestheticus. 1: Strategic Rationality. 1. Philia and Eris. 2. Calculus and Manipulation. 3. The Art of War or Kriegskunst. 4. Games of Society and Games of Culture. 2: Time, that Great Sculptor. 1. Saying Time. 2. Sensing Time. 3. Remembering Time. 4. Epilogue: Suffering Time. 3: Abductive Understanding. 1. Intuition. 2. Presumption. 3. Habit. 4. Sensibility. 4: Reasonable Pathos. Prolegomena: The Discursive Economy of Pathos. 1. The Regulation of Emotions. 2. The Logic of Sentiments. 3. The Reasons of Passions. 4. The Reasons for Desiring Passions. 5: The Sublime and the Ambiance of Seduction. 1. Hypostasis and Critique of the Sublime. 2. The Schema of Aesthetic Values. 3. The (Sublime) Ambiance of Seduction. 6: The Attitude of Good Taste. 1. Understanding the Acceptable. 2. Desiring the Obligatory. 3. The Royal Way. 7: Communicating through Aisthesis. 1. The Pursuit and Crisis of Foundations. 2. The Argumentative and Communicative Community. 3. The Affective Community. 4. Socializing the Sensible, Sensibilizing the Social.