Matthew S. Haar Farris is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.Joshua Ramey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of The Hermetic Deleuze (2012), the co-translator of François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today (forthcoming), and the author of Politics of Divination (2016).

Ramey and Harris have expertly orchestrated a colloquy of diversely placed voices in praise of “the enigmatic absolute.” The end result is certainly a “reframing” of continental philosophy of religion and so an offer of a reflective space within that academic niche that is less beholden to an anti-Enlightenment polemic. But even more basically, what readers get from this unusual gathering of avant-garde essayists is remarkably intelligent encouragement to explore neglected forms of reverence that have nevertheless retained their capacity to seed the stony soil of dogmatic skepticism and bear new fruit.

• Introduction, Joshua Ramey and Matthew Haar Farris / Part I: Speculations (I): Futures of the Absolute / 1. First Reflections on the Idea of a Speculative Pragmatics Daniel Whistler / 2. Sorcery, Thought, and the ‘Ghosts of Departed Quantities Matt Lee / 3. Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke, Meillassoux’s Messianicity Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke / 4. A Broken Line: Lucretian Lineage in Logic of Sense” Jessie Hock / Part IISpeculations (II): Visionary Conditions / 5. The Nebular Experience: Towards a Politics of Perception Juan Salzano / 6. Spectral Bodies of Evidence Erin Yerby / 7. The Inner Flesh: Michel Henry’s Mystic Phenomenology Erik Davis / 8. Some Admittedly Bold Interdisciplinary ‘Participatory Turn’ Hypotheses for Scholarly Collaboration with the Divine Matthew Haar Farris / 9. The gods are dead. Long live the gods. Kierkegaard, Chaos, and Hermes Steven Shakespeare Part III. Heresy: Experiments / 10. More Than Human Sam Webster / 11. Red, White, and Pig: On Sexmagic, Christ, & Chthonic America Clark Roth / 12. Genericity, Convexity: Instructions Rocco Gangle / 13. Life in the Absolute’: 20 Secular Philosophical Spiritual Exercises Jason Smick / 14., The Undulating Unknown Ná Khar Eliff-cePart IV. Gnosis: Creatures of Saying and Unsaying / 15. Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes, and the Connective Distinction Beatrice Marovich / 16. Unpossessed Knowledge Daniel Colucciello Barber / 17. Humiliated in Language: On Taquiyya and Translation Anthony Paul Smith / 18. Freeing Immanence from the Grip of Philosophy: On Univocity and Experimentalism in Meister Eckhart Alex Dubilet / 19. / Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker / 20. Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation Nicola MasciandaroNotes on Contributors

Matthew S. Haar Farris is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.Joshua Ramey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of The Hermetic Deleuze (2012), the co-translator of François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today (forthcoming), and the author of Politics of Divination (2016).

Ramey and Harris have expertly orchestrated a colloquy of diversely placed voices in praise of “the enigmatic absolute.” The end result is certainly a “reframing” of continental philosophy of religion and so an offer of a reflective space within that academic niche that is less beholden to an anti-Enlightenment polemic. But even more basically, what readers get from this unusual gathering of avant-garde essayists is remarkably intelligent encouragement to explore neglected forms of reverence that have nevertheless retained their capacity to seed the stony soil of dogmatic skepticism and bear new fruit.

• Introduction, Joshua Ramey and Matthew Haar Farris / Part I: Speculations (I): Futures of the Absolute / 1. First Reflections on the Idea of a Speculative Pragmatics Daniel Whistler / 2. Sorcery, Thought, and the ‘Ghosts of Departed Quantities Matt Lee / 3. Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke, Meillassoux’s Messianicity Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke / 4. A Broken Line: Lucretian Lineage in Logic of Sense” Jessie Hock / Part IISpeculations (II): Visionary Conditions / 5. The Nebular Experience: Towards a Politics of Perception Juan Salzano / 6. Spectral Bodies of Evidence Erin Yerby / 7. The Inner Flesh: Michel Henry’s Mystic Phenomenology Erik Davis / 8. Some Admittedly Bold Interdisciplinary ‘Participatory Turn’ Hypotheses for Scholarly Collaboration with the Divine Matthew Haar Farris / 9. The gods are dead. Long live the gods. Kierkegaard, Chaos, and Hermes Steven Shakespeare Part III. Heresy: Experiments / 10. More Than Human Sam Webster / 11. Red, White, and Pig: On Sexmagic, Christ, & Chthonic America Clark Roth / 12. Genericity, Convexity: Instructions Rocco Gangle / 13. Life in the Absolute’: 20 Secular Philosophical Spiritual Exercises Jason Smick / 14., The Undulating Unknown Ná Khar Eliff-cePart IV. Gnosis: Creatures of Saying and Unsaying / 15. Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes, and the Connective Distinction Beatrice Marovich / 16. Unpossessed Knowledge Daniel Colucciello Barber / 17. Humiliated in Language: On Taquiyya and Translation Anthony Paul Smith / 18. Freeing Immanence from the Grip of Philosophy: On Univocity and Experimentalism in Meister Eckhart Alex Dubilet / 19. / Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker / 20. Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation Nicola MasciandaroNotes on Contributors

Matthew S. Haar Farris is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Fresno.Joshua Ramey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of The Hermetic Deleuze (2012), the co-translator of François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today (forthcoming), and the author of Politics of Divination (2016).

Ramey and Harris have expertly orchestrated a colloquy of diversely placed voices in praise of “the enigmatic absolute.” The end result is certainly a “reframing” of continental philosophy of religion and so an offer of a reflective space within that academic niche that is less beholden to an anti-Enlightenment polemic. But even more basically, what readers get from this unusual gathering of avant-garde essayists is remarkably intelligent encouragement to explore neglected forms of reverence that have nevertheless retained their capacity to seed the stony soil of dogmatic skepticism and bear new fruit.

• Introduction, Joshua Ramey and Matthew Haar Farris / Part I: Speculations (I): Futures of the Absolute / 1. First Reflections on the Idea of a Speculative Pragmatics Daniel Whistler / 2. Sorcery, Thought, and the ‘Ghosts of Departed Quantities Matt Lee / 3. Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke, Meillassoux’s Messianicity Mark Mason & Michael O’Rourke / 4. A Broken Line: Lucretian Lineage in Logic of Sense” Jessie Hock / Part IISpeculations (II): Visionary Conditions / 5. The Nebular Experience: Towards a Politics of Perception Juan Salzano / 6. Spectral Bodies of Evidence Erin Yerby / 7. The Inner Flesh: Michel Henry’s Mystic Phenomenology Erik Davis / 8. Some Admittedly Bold Interdisciplinary ‘Participatory Turn’ Hypotheses for Scholarly Collaboration with the Divine Matthew Haar Farris / 9. The gods are dead. Long live the gods. Kierkegaard, Chaos, and Hermes Steven Shakespeare Part III. Heresy: Experiments / 10. More Than Human Sam Webster / 11. Red, White, and Pig: On Sexmagic, Christ, & Chthonic America Clark Roth / 12. Genericity, Convexity: Instructions Rocco Gangle / 13. Life in the Absolute’: 20 Secular Philosophical Spiritual Exercises Jason Smick / 14., The Undulating Unknown Ná Khar Eliff-cePart IV. Gnosis: Creatures of Saying and Unsaying / 15. Wishbone: Animals, Absolutes, and the Connective Distinction Beatrice Marovich / 16. Unpossessed Knowledge Daniel Colucciello Barber / 17. Humiliated in Language: On Taquiyya and Translation Anthony Paul Smith / 18. Freeing Immanence from the Grip of Philosophy: On Univocity and Experimentalism in Meister Eckhart Alex Dubilet / 19. / Cosmic Pessimism Eugene Thacker / 20. Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation Nicola MasciandaroNotes on Contributors