Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Culture and Transcendence -- Culture and Transcendence: A Typology -- PART I Philosophy: Historical Approaches -- The Death-Defying Leap from Nihilism to Transcendence: F.H. Jacobi's Idea of Transcendence -- Radical Immanence: An Anomaly in the History of Ideas -- PART II Contemporary Philosophy -- The Concept of Transcendence in Charles Taylor's Later Work -- Humanism and Transcendence -- Richard Rorty on Transcendence -- Early Critical Theory and Habermas on Transcendence -- PART III Philosophical Theology -- Living Death: The Logic of Self-Foundation and the Problem of Transcendence in Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity -- Jean-Luc Marion and the Transcendence par Excellence: Love -- Everyday Life as Divine Practice: Modernity and Transcendence in Michel de Certeau -- Jean-Yves Lacoste: The Experience of Transcendence -- Transcendence, Self-Transcendence, and Aesthetics -- Gianni Vattimo: Transcendence and (Postmetaphysical) Utopia -- PART IV Christian Theology -- Intimations of Transcendence: Praise and Compassion -- Religious Secularity and the Eclipse of the Real -- Transcendence in Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light (1962): A Theological Analysis -- PART V Politics -- Against the Use of the Essentialist Divine Hierarchy Theory of Religion in Political Theory -- The World as the "Beyond" in Politics -- A Political Theology of an Absent God -- Splitting Transcendence and Dividing Humankind: A Case of Secularization -- PART VI Art -- Communities of Oppression and the Recovery of the Sacred Community -- The Transcendence of a Meaningful Life: The Portrayal of the Contemporary Self in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest -- The Ethics of Transcendence: C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

Moments of Transcendence in A.I. The Moving Image and the Power of the Human Imagination -- "Beyond" Immanence and Transcendence: Reflections in the Mirror of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and Solaris -- Some Time for Timelessness: Performance Time of Works by Messiaen, Sorabji, and Ten Holt -- Afterword -- Vicissitudes of Transcendence -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors.