Dancing with Sophia

Michael Schwartz is Professor of Art History and Humanities at Augusta University. He is coeditor (with Jason M. Wirth and David Jones) of On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis and The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is the founder of MetaIntegral, a social enterprise company dedicated to the professional application of integral principles. He is coeditor (with Jonathan Reams and Olen Gunnlaugson) of Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning and editor of Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Constructive Perspectives on the AQAL Model, both published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations and TablesForeword: The Global-Historical Movement of Integral ThinkingBrian SchroederIntroduction: Integral Philosophy on the VergeMichael Schwartz and Sean Esbjorn-HargensPart I. Criticality and Normative Orientation 1. Integral Theory, Pragmatism, and the Future of PhilosophyZachary Stein2. Stages, States, and Modes of Existence in Integral Critical TheoryMartin Beck Matuštik3. Tetra Call of the GoodMichael Schwartz4. Nothing Matters vs. Nothing Matters: How Integral Theory Addresses NihilismMichael E. ZimmermanPart II. Wild Nature—Plural Touch 5. Heidegger and Integral Ecology: Toward an Intelligible CosmosDavid E. Storey6. Dancing on the Verge: Schelling, Dōgen, and Integral ThinkingJason M. Wirth7. An Integral Touch: Philosophies for Pluralism, Realism, and EmbodimentSam MickeyPart III. Limits and Critique 8. Toward an Integral Ontological Pluralism: A Process-Oriented Critique of Integral Theory’s Evolutionary CosmologyZayin Cabot9. Derrida and Wilber at the Crossroads of MetaphysicsGregory Desilet10. Ontological and Epistemic Considerations for Integral Philosophy: Toward a Critical Realist Integral TheoryNicholas Hedlund11. Embodied Realisms and Integral Ontologies: Toward Self-Critical Theories 311Tom Murray12. Making Sense of Everything? Integral Postmetaphysics and the Theological Turn in Continental PhilosophyCameron Stewart Rees FreemanPart IV: Philosophy and Meta-Philosophy13. Sophia Speaks: An Integral Grammar of PhilosophyBruce AldermanAfterword: Realism and Idealism in Integral TheoryKen WilberList of ContributorsIndex

"Integral theory is a bold and provocative endeavor. It challenges one to think past the norm, to sail beyond the horizon and risk encountering the Scylla and Charybdis of what is academically acceptable—or at least familiar—and what is possible, in ways that only are now beginning to dawn on both thinking and dwelling. If it is nothing else, integral theory is the movement beyond the purely intellectual into the lived experience. This is its 'meta-' dimension properly understood." — from the Foreword by Brian Schroeder