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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Like Desmond’s other publications, this book shows a deep thoughtfulness, a rare capacity to wonder, and an astonishing attentiveness to things that are evident but tend to pass by unnoticed.” —D. C. Schindler, author of Freedom from Reality
“William Desmond is one of the most original philosophers of our time, and this volume is perhaps his most fascinating yet.” —David Bentley Hart, author of Theological Territories
"The adventure of this work is in stepping away from any preconceived notions and reflecting on the human experience in a new way. Upon doing so, Desmond offers many incisive and rich critiques of an atheistic contemporary world as well as of static and insufficient presentations of religious belief, all from within his particular conceptual framework." —The University Bookman
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Superiority Beyond Interiority
1. Default Atheism
2. Thresholds Between Finitude and Infinitude: The Self-sublation and Abjection of Transcendence
3. Solitudes: Thresholds Between Selving and the Sacred
4. Idiot Wisdom and the Intimate Universal: Immanence and Transcendence in an Intercultural Perspective
5. Mysticism and the Intimate Universal: On the Arnhem Mystical Sermons and Sri Aurobindo
6. Dream Monologues of Autonomy: Variations on the Prodigal Son
7. Exceeding Virtue: On Aquinas and the Beatitudes
8. Godsends: On the Surprise of Revelation
