In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking": the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular.

In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of "monarchical thinking"--the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular.ular.

Gourgouris's complex writing requires a high level of specialized knowledge, but scholars in religion and philosophy will find this stimulating.