Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The Love of Wisdom and the Consolations of Fallibility Traditional Widsom and its Post-Modern Unmasking The Flight to Intuition The Throe as Arche 2. Wonder as Hinge Wonder as Rupture The Re-presentative Picture and the Vocative Image Being as the Toward-Which of Wonder Intimations of the Sacred 3. On the Way between Heidegger and Lonergan The Emergence of the World as World The Transcendental Turn to World-Making Deconstruction and Ontological Conversion Judgment and the Call of Being 4. Worlds Worlds as Hierophanies Centripetal Pull and Centrifugal Radiance The Tragic Quest for an Undeconstructible World Worlds as Games and the Demise of the Sacred The Return of the Repressed 5. Amphibolies of Love and Death Instinct and the Desire to Control Eros as Celebration Ironies of Death and Dying 6. The Experience of Horror and the Deconstruction of the Self The Horror of Deconstruction and the Dream of Totality Intimations of Nothingness Anguish and the Acknowledgment of One's Nothingness 7. Temporality as Rupture Death as Throe The Toward-Which of Temporality Time's Other 8.

In the Throe of the Absolute Other The Objectivist Framework of the Traditional Argument Wonder as the Original Conversion Nothingness and its Difference from Absence Radical Conversion Awe as the Toward-Which of Wonder and Horror The Opening to Otherness Epilogue Notes Index.