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.