Looking Beyond?: Shifting Views of Transcendence in Philosophy, Theology, Art, and Politics

Preliminary Material -- Foreword /W.L. van der Merwe and Wessel Stoker -- Culture and Transcendence: A Typology /Wessel Stoker -- The Death-Defying Leap from Nihilism to Transcendence: F.H. Jacobi's Idea of Transcendence /Peter Jonkers -- Radical Immanence: An Anomaly in the History of Ideas /Danie Goosen -- The Concept of Transcendence in Charles Taylor's Later Work /Guido Vanheeswijck -- Humanism and Transcendence /Annemie Halsema -- Richard Rorty on Transcendence /Ronald A. Kuipers -- Early Critical Theory and Habermas on Transcendence /Pieter Duvenage -- Living Death: The Logic of Self-Foundation and the Problem of Transcendence in Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity /Laurens ten Kate -- Jean-Luc Marion and the Transcendence par Excellence: Love /Joeri Schrijvers -- Everyday Life as Divine Practice: Modernity and Transcendence in Michel de Certeau /Inigo Bocken -- Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Transcendence /Kenneth Jason Wardley -- Transcendence, Self-Transcendence, and Aesthetics /Svein Aage Christoffersen -- Gianni Vattimo: Transcendence and (Postmetaphysical) Utopia /S.W.P. Engelbrecht and W.L. van der Merwe -- Intimations of Transcendence: Praise and Compassion /Sallie McFague -- Religious Secularity and the Eclipse of the Real /Mark C. Taylor -- Transcendence in Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light (1962): A Theological Analysis /Martien E. Brinkman -- Against the Use of the Essentialist Divine Hierarchy Theory of Religion in Political Theory /Govert Buijs -- The World as the "Beyond" in Politics /Vasti Roodt -- A Political Theology of an Absent God /Marin Terpstra -- Splitting Transcendence and Dividing Humankind: A Case of Secularization /Theo W.A. de Wit -- Communities of Oppression and the Recovery of the Sacred Community /David Jasper -- The Transcendence of a Meaningful Life: The Portrayal of the Contemporary Self in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest /Allard den Dulk -- The Ethics of Transcendence: C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials /Henry Jansen -- Moments of Transcendence in A.I.: The Moving Image and the Power of the Human Imagination /Heidi de Mare -- "Beyond" Immanence and Transcendence: Reflections in the Mirror of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and Solaris /Sylvain De Bleeckere -- Some Time for Timelessness: Performance Time of Works by Messiaen, Sorabji, and Ten Holt /Oane Reitsma -- Vicissitudes of Transcendence /W.L. van der Merwe -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors to this Volume.