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"Metaphysics is not often spoken of as a venue for dialogue about anything, let alone culture or religion, which are more readily associated with phenomenology or hermeneutics in contemporary thinking. This collection of essays, however, by the late Boston College philosopher Oliva Blanchette, maintains the absolute necessity of metaphysics as a prerequisite for examining any particular 'realm of being,' in all areas of human inquiry, from the particular sciences to historical cultures and religions. Blanchette proposes metaphysics as a fundamental and necessary level of intelligence presupposed in any exercise of judgment, discourse, or dialogue, among rational beings. At the same time, he defends the idea that dialogue is the first and most fundamentalform in which such reasoning takes place in human experience, on a radically intersubjective level through language"--

Oliva Blanchette (1929-2021) was professor of philosophy at Boston College.

Cathal Doherty is Emmet J. and Martha Doerr Chair of Theology at Marquette University.