The fundamental idea of Surrealism is a philosophical trope that can be understood in terms of its Neoplatonic legacy as a basic insight into what lies beyond reality that is, specifically, the surreal. This volume addresses boundary-breaking thought in art and philosophy, concluding Hogrebe's anthropological quartet Risky Proximity to Life (2010), The Implicit Human (2013), and Metaphysics and Mantics (2nd edition 2013).

Wolfram Hogrebe, University of Bonn, Germany.