Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame

<|>Small Wonder<|> is an extraordinary book in both its philosophical richness and its poetic evocation of a vision of hope that does not falter before the direness of our time. Dallmayr brings his vast erudition of the philosophical tradition to bear onsome of the most burning issues that any critical theory has to face in today?s world. It is a beautiful and somber book that reminds us of our responsibility to take notice of those ways in which a new world is being brought into being in the crevices and cracks of our everyday activities...

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Small Wonder: Finitude and Its HorizonsChapter 3 The Underside of Modernity: Adorno, Heidegger, and DusselChapter 4 Empire or Cosmopolis: Civilization at the CrossroadsChapter 5 Confronting Empire: A Tribute to Arundhati RoyChapter 6 Speaking Truth to Power: In Memory of Edward SaidChapter 7 Critical Intellectuals in a Global Age: Toward a Global Public SphereChapter 8 Social Identity and Creative Praxis: Hommage á Merleau-PontyChapter 9 Nature and Artifact: Gadamer on Human HealthChapter 10 Borders or Horizons: An Older Debate RevisitedChapter 11 Empire and Faith: Sacred Non-SovereigntyChapter 12 AppendixChapter 13 The Dignity of Difference: A Salute to Jonathan SacksChapter 14 Religion and Rationality: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Frankfurt SchoolChapter 15 Nomolatry and Fidelity: A Response to Charles TaylorChapter 16 Index