List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Orientations 1. Wittgenstein's Duck-Rabbit 2. Implaced within Social-Historical Worlds a. Three Epistemes b. What Does Howard Gardner's Formulation of Intelligence Overlook? 3. Orientation towards the Absolute a. The Porous Self b. Guiding Assumptions Part Two: Exfoliations 4.

The Limited Adoption of Modern Philosophical Insights 5. A Condensed Synopsis of a Philosophical Tradition: Reflections on the Unconscious 6. Plurality of Being, of Language, and of Sociality 7. Ontological Ambiguity in the Context of Existential Intelligence a. Ambiguity: Illustrations from Objects of Art to Everyday Objects to the Cosmos 8. What Does the Near-Absence of Existential Intelligence Look Like? 9. Northern Exposure: "What is So Wonderful about Being Big?" 10. Beyond Instrumentalism: Rethinking Wisdom and Existential Intelligence in Psychological Research a.

The Limitations of Autonomy-Centric View of the Human Condition b. The Soul's Freedom and Other-Power: Analyzing Franz's Choice in A Hidden Life through Tanabe's Metanoetics c. Simone Weil: Existential Intelligence Embodied 11. An Existential Conversation with ChatGPT-4o(mni) a. Omni: Something, Anything, Nothing, and Everything b. Wilber's Integral Theory 12. Educational Matters: Can Existential Intelligence be Reduced to Criticality? Conclusion: Existential Intelligence and Liberal Democracy References About the Author Index.