Calvin O. Schrag is the George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Purdue University. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Central College.

• Foreword by Lenore LangsdorfAcknowledgmentsIntroductionReflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political: An InterviewPart 1: Religion and the Post-Secular Turn in Continental PhilosophyIntroductionChapter 1: Ontology and the Possibility of Religious KnowledgeChapter 2: The Kierkegaard Effect in the Shaping of the Contours of ModernityChapter 3: The Grammar of TranscendenceChapter 4: Transcendence and TransversalityChapter 5: The Problem of Being and the Question about GodChapter 6: Otherness and the Problem of Evil: How Does That Which Is Other Become Evil?Part 2: Transvaluation of the Ethical and the PoliticalIntroductionChapter 7: The Structure of Moral Experience: A Phenomenological and Existential AnalysisChapter 8: Alterity and the GiftChapter 9: On the Ethics of the Gift: Acknowledgement and ResponseChapter 10: Toward a Phenomenology of Postnational IdentityChapter 11: A Thought Experiment on Cross-Cultural Dialogue and PeacemakingChapter 12: Comparative Philosophy and the Politics of OthernessChapter 13: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the PoliticalChapter 14: The Topology of HopeBibliography IndexAbout the Author and Editor

Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political also displays the philosophical virtues that Schrag’s readers have come to expect of his writing. Consisting primarily of previously published essays, this book offers a rich introduction to some of Schrag’s key ideas: the notion of “transversality,” “the ethic of the fitting response,” and “postnational identity.” Praise is due to Michael R. Paradiso-Michau for his editorial work in so carefully selecting the essays that are included in this volume. These essays span much of Schrag’s career and, accordingly, do a nice job of showing how Schrag’s ideas have importantly remained consistent in some general ways and yet changed and developed in other ways. . . .In the end, this is a book worth reading and taking seriously. It is clearly written, well argued, and attentive to persistent questions in religious, ethical, and political existence. Paradiso-Michau has done philosophy a service by bringing together these valuable essays by an important philosopher

Calvin O. Schrag is the George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Purdue University. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Central College.

• Foreword by Lenore LangsdorfAcknowledgmentsIntroductionReflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political: An InterviewPart 1: Religion and the Post-Secular Turn in Continental PhilosophyIntroductionChapter 1: Ontology and the Possibility of Religious KnowledgeChapter 2: The Kierkegaard Effect in the Shaping of the Contours of ModernityChapter 3: The Grammar of TranscendenceChapter 4: Transcendence and TransversalityChapter 5: The Problem of Being and the Question about GodChapter 6: Otherness and the Problem of Evil: How Does That Which Is Other Become Evil?Part 2: Transvaluation of the Ethical and the PoliticalIntroductionChapter 7: The Structure of Moral Experience: A Phenomenological and Existential AnalysisChapter 8: Alterity and the GiftChapter 9: On the Ethics of the Gift: Acknowledgement and ResponseChapter 10: Toward a Phenomenology of Postnational IdentityChapter 11: A Thought Experiment on Cross-Cultural Dialogue and PeacemakingChapter 12: Comparative Philosophy and the Politics of OthernessChapter 13: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the PoliticalChapter 14: The Topology of HopeBibliography IndexAbout the Author and Editor

Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political also displays the philosophical virtues that Schrag’s readers have come to expect of his writing. Consisting primarily of previously published essays, this book offers a rich introduction to some of Schrag’s key ideas: the notion of “transversality,” “the ethic of the fitting response,” and “postnational identity.” Praise is due to Michael R. Paradiso-Michau for his editorial work in so carefully selecting the essays that are included in this volume. These essays span much of Schrag’s career and, accordingly, do a nice job of showing how Schrag’s ideas have importantly remained consistent in some general ways and yet changed and developed in other ways. . . .In the end, this is a book worth reading and taking seriously. It is clearly written, well argued, and attentive to persistent questions in religious, ethical, and political existence. Paradiso-Michau has done philosophy a service by bringing together these valuable essays by an important philosopher

Calvin O. Schrag is the George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Purdue University. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Central College.

• Foreword by Lenore LangsdorfAcknowledgmentsIntroductionReflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political: An InterviewPart 1: Religion and the Post-Secular Turn in Continental PhilosophyIntroductionChapter 1: Ontology and the Possibility of Religious KnowledgeChapter 2: The Kierkegaard Effect in the Shaping of the Contours of ModernityChapter 3: The Grammar of TranscendenceChapter 4: Transcendence and TransversalityChapter 5: The Problem of Being and the Question about GodChapter 6: Otherness and the Problem of Evil: How Does That Which Is Other Become Evil?Part 2: Transvaluation of the Ethical and the PoliticalIntroductionChapter 7: The Structure of Moral Experience: A Phenomenological and Existential AnalysisChapter 8: Alterity and the GiftChapter 9: On the Ethics of the Gift: Acknowledgement and ResponseChapter 10: Toward a Phenomenology of Postnational IdentityChapter 11: A Thought Experiment on Cross-Cultural Dialogue and PeacemakingChapter 12: Comparative Philosophy and the Politics of OthernessChapter 13: Geophilosophy, the Lifeworld, and the PoliticalChapter 14: The Topology of HopeBibliography IndexAbout the Author and Editor

Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political also displays the philosophical virtues that Schrag’s readers have come to expect of his writing. Consisting primarily of previously published essays, this book offers a rich introduction to some of Schrag’s key ideas: the notion of “transversality,” “the ethic of the fitting response,” and “postnational identity.” Praise is due to Michael R. Paradiso-Michau for his editorial work in so carefully selecting the essays that are included in this volume. These essays span much of Schrag’s career and, accordingly, do a nice job of showing how Schrag’s ideas have importantly remained consistent in some general ways and yet changed and developed in other ways. . . .In the end, this is a book worth reading and taking seriously. It is clearly written, well argued, and attentive to persistent questions in religious, ethical, and political existence. Paradiso-Michau has done philosophy a service by bringing together these valuable essays by an important philosopher