Absurdity, time, death - each poses a profound threat to Being, compelling us to face our limits and our finitude. Yet what does it mean to fully realize and experience these threats? Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home presents a thoughtful and thorough…
Finite Transcendence: Existential Exile and the Myth of Home introduces and situates "existential exile" as an experience of the fundamental finitude of human existence and demonstrates how a particular way of responding in faith may enable one to find home in exile. Using the l…
After being banished to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid responded in verse by composing the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. Here the poet establishes for himself a place of intellectual refuge, where he can reflect out loud on how and why his own art ha…