Christopher Ben Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Lincoln Christian University. He is the author of Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo and The Truth is the Way: Kierkegaard's Theologia Viatorum.

Foreword by John Caputo
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of William Desmond's Works

Part I. Metaphysics and Philosophy

The Fourfold Way
Transcendences
The Truth of Metaphysics
What Is Metaphysical Thinking?
Metaphysics and Dialectic
The Metaxological
The Idiocy of Being
Agapeic Mind

Part II. Ethics and Ethos

Autonomy and Freedom
The Potencies of the Ethical
Metaxological Ethics

Part III. Religion and the Philosophy of God

Agapeic Origin
Breaking the Silence
Godlessness
Beyond Godlessness
Hegel's Counterfeit Double
God and the Metaxological Way
God and Hyperbole
God beyond the Whole
God Being Over-Being: A Metaphysical Canto

Part IV. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Being Aesthetic
Being at a Loss: On Philosophy and the Tragic
Art and Transcendence

Part V. Retrospections and Reflections

Wording the Between
"Two Thinks at a Distance": An Interview with William Desmond by Richard Kearney on 9 January 2011

Index