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Title Page -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Part 1: Intentional Infinitude -- Chapter 1: Desire, Lack, and the Absorbing God -- Chapter 2: Desire and Original Selfness -- Chapter 3: Desire's Infinitude and Wholeness -- Part 2: Actual Finitude -- Chapter 4: Desire, Transcendence, and Static Eternity -- Chapter 5: Desire, Knowing, and Otherness -- Chapter 6: Desire, Concreteness, and Being -- Chapter 7: Desire, Otherness, and Infinitude -- Part 3: Actual Infinitude -- Chapter 8: Desire and the Absolute Original -- Bibliography.

"From Edith Stein's comment that "being is the unfolding of meaning," the author contends that her understanding of the term is relational and thus resistant to both existentialism and essentialism. He tests his hypothesis against Stein's three modes of being (actual, essential, and mental) from both phenomenological and scholastic perspectives"--