The Transgressive Transcendentalist Maieutic

The Transgressive Transcendentalist is committed to the Heideggerian project of "overcoming the world"--the "found" world, the "given" world--the world into which we are socialized (or, as Heidegger would say, "thrown").

Why? Because this world falls short of our utopian ideals. The sources of those ideals will vary among different peoples at different times and places and the cultivation of capacious consciousness (through a deep and wide reading of the "Transcendentalist canon") will enable us to recognize the pluralistic nature of our ideal universe.

The Transgressive Transcendentalist manhaj or maieutic consists in measuring the distance between the found world of socialization and the utopia we hold in our hearts.

The goal of our praxis is disturbance: the induction of cognitive dissonance. Bewilderment is the beginning of wisdom. A-gnosis producing ek-stacy.

The faith of the Transgressive Transcendentalist has nothing to do with belief. It is, rather, a commitment to another beginning; the commencement of an untried path.