Tyler Tritten is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. He received his Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 2012 and later spent two years (2015-2016) as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Theology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His publications focus on speculative philosophy in areas of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, non-prescriptive ethics and the history of philosophy. He is the author of Beyond Presence: The Late F. W. J. Schelling’s Criticism of Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2012) and co-editor of a special issue of the journal Angelaki: Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling (Vol. 21.4, 2017).

This is a difficult but important work for those researching in these areas. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Introduction: An Attempt at a Speculative Ontology or An Alternative to Possible-God TheologiesPart I: Critical and Constructive Preliminaries: Meillassoux, Boutroux and the Early Schelling1. Meillassoux Against the Principle of Reason: An Ontology of Factiality2. Boutroux’s Alternative: An Ontology of the Fact 3. On the Primacy of Matter: Neoplatonism Right-Side Up Part II. Contingent Reason and a Contingent God: The Late Schelling and the Late Heidegger4. Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being5. Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God6. Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last GodPart III. Application and Concluding Remarks 7. A Response to Old Riddles and a New Typology: On the Euthyphro Dilemma and TheomonismAfterwordIndex