“[T]he writing is stimulating, vibrant, challenging, risky, and fecund. Recommended.”
 — Choice

“An original and stimulating book, manifesting a level of reflection and existential concern of the highest order. It is intellectually and personally honest.”
 — Robert E. Innis, author of Susanne Langer in Focus

“There is something fresh and hence refreshing in the manner in which John T. Lysaker takes up familiar topics. He shows, with both arresting details and an evolving design, how the conduct of life (to use Emerson's expression) demands a form of thought frequently at odds with contemporary fashions and preoccupations, with institutionally entrenched approaches and all too rigidly policed discourses.”
 — Vincent Colapietro, author of Experience, Interpretation, and Community