Crispin Sartwell is Chair of Humanities and Sciences at Maryland Institute, College of Art. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions and Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Putting Language in Its Place

1. Telos and Torture

2. Sign and Sin

3. History and Multiplicity

4. Presence and Fate

Index