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I would recommend Lacan. I shan't patronise/ confuse you with a summary, but his basic notion is that our mental formation of the notion of 'reality' is formed from a lie - that the image of ourselves is actually ourselves. This is a split from the 'real' real. This 'fake' reality is taken as real reality, and our metaphysics is confused thenceforth.
To my mind, and to many Europeans' minds (but not British or Americans generally speaking) he's as important a figure as Descartes or Plato.
I absolutely loathed Descartes until I read Derrida's 'Cogito, and the history of Madness' in Writing and Difference.
I'm sure you're being provocative, but you surely can't dismiss Kant and Hegel so entirely as to hate them? I have a Hegelian friend who would probably insist that Hegel would win if you do so. My Hegelian friend is a total, utter prick though.
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