Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Religion -- Chapter 7: Notes for a History of Transcendence -- Chapter 1: Why Do We Believe in GA? -- Chapter 2: Transcendence -- Chapter 3: Transcendence and Cultural Will -- Chapter 4: The Question of Transcendence: An Update -- Chapter 5: The New Anthropic Principle -- Creation stories -- Chapter 6: Believing in GA -- The personal side of GA -- Chapter 8: A Minimal Theodicy: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves -- Chapter 9: Cosmic Optimism -- Chapter 10: Religion and Originary Anthropology -- Chapter 11: Intelligent Design? -- Chapter 12: Return of the Sacred I - The Sacred and the Significant -- Chapter 13: Return of the Sacred II - Secularism -- Chapter 14: Tragedy and Christianity: Minimal and Maximal Faith -- Part Two: Philosophy -- Chapter 15: Monism or Dualism? -- Chapter 16: Philosophy to Metaphysics I -- Chapter 17: Pre-Socratics II: Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Anaximander -- Chapter 18Pre-Socratics III: Xenophanes and Theology -- Chapter 19: John Rawls' Originary Theory of Justice -- Chapter 20: Richard Rorty's Metaphysics -- Chapter 21: From Phenomenology to Generative Anthropology -- Chapter 22: Écriture from Barthes to GA -- Chapter 23: The Fundamental Paradox of Signification -- The imperative -- The declarative and the esthetic -- Logical paradox -- Part Three: Art -- Chapter 24: Why Art Defies Analysis -- Chapter 25: The Esthetic Moment -- Chapter 26: The Sublime and the Beautiful -- Chapter 27: High and Low Esthetics -- Chapter 28: Popular Culture Is All We've Got -- Chapter 29: On Realism -- Chapter 30: Art and Otherness -- Chapter 31: New Thoughts on Originary Narrative -- Chapter 32: Poetic Justice: Notes on the Classical Esthetic -- Resentment, the first word of western culture -- Chapter 33: Story and Plot -- Chapter 34: Hermeneutics.

Chapter 35: The Dancer from the Dance -- Index.