Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of many books, including The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions; Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality; End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History; Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives; Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory; and How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism, all published by SUNY Press.

I. First Philosophy: Reality, Truth, and Knowledge
Introduction: The Universe in Brief
1. Ontology
2. Theory of Truth
3. Epistemology

II. Axiology: Goodness, Beauty, and Liberty
Introduction: Values as Situations
4. Ethics
5. Aesthetics
6. Political Philosophy
Conclusion
Notes
Index