Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I The Sleeping Island
6. Chapter 1 Purposivity and Consciousness 47
7. Chapter 2 Purposivity and Dichotomy 78
8. Chapter 3 Purposivity and Personhood 113
9. Chapter 4 Purposivity and Finitude 142
10. Part II Varieties of Atheist Beatitude
11. Chapter 5 Spinoza, or Intoxicating Sobriety 197
12. Chapter 6 Nietzsche, or the Divinely Vicious Circle 279
13. Chapter 7 Bataille, or Fuckin’ Chaos 304
14. Conclusion. Meaningfulness Revisited: Styles of Suffering, Sublimity, and Beatific Vision, Theistic and Atheistic 322
15. Acknowledgments 345
16. Appendixes 349
17. Notes 351
18. Bibliography 369
19. Index 373