In Search of Transcendence

Jerry H. Gill (Ph.D. Duke University, 1966) is Professor Emeritus of the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. He has written and edited over 30 books, and published over 100 articles in professional journals; several on the thinkers central to this study. His major works include Wittgenstein and Metaphor, Mediated transcendence, Deep Postmodernism, and The Tacit Mode.

• Introduction1 Three Diverse Personas1 Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane2 Wittgenstein, the Austrian Expatriate3 Kazantzakis, the Greek Iconoclast 2 Three Differing Philosophies1 Kierkegaard’s Ironic Existentialism 2 Wittgenstein’s Linguistic Analysis 3 Kazantzakis’ Cosmic Dualism 3 Three Divergent “Theologies”1 Kierkegaard’s “Knight of Faith” 2 Wittgenstein and “God-Talk” 3 Kazantzakis’ Emerging Deity Conclusion Mediated Transcendence BibliographyIndex