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The Persistent Divine: Spirit in the Age of Equations
Has science really banished the divine?
The deeper science probes into reality, the more mysterious reality becomes. Why is the universe governed by mathematical laws? Why is it intelligible at all? And what remains when explanation reaches its ultimate limit?
Drawing on physics, cosmology, philosophy, literature, and theology, Didier Maleuvre challenges the idea that science has emptied the world of meaning. He argues that its devotion to truth, its humility before reality, and its capacity for wonder preserve an unmistakably spiritual impulse.
Bold, provocative, and beautifully written, The Persistent Divine reveals the sacred mystery at the heart of the scientific adventure.
Didier Maleuvre is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books on literature, art, philosophy, and the history of ideas, including The A History of Our Infinite Longing (University of California Press) and The Legends of the Modern (Bloomsbury Academic). His work has received wide critical attention for its intellectual ambition, originality, and breadth. The Persistent Spirit in the Age of Equations is his latest and most far-reaching exploration of the enduring questions of knowledge, meaning, and transcendence in the modern world.
The deeper science probes into reality, the more mysterious reality becomes. Why is the universe governed by mathematical laws? Why is it intelligible at all? And what remains when explanation reaches its ultimate limit?
Drawing on physics, cosmology, philosophy, literature, and theology, Didier Maleuvre challenges the idea that science has emptied the world of meaning. He argues that its devotion to truth, its humility before reality, and its capacity for wonder preserve an unmistakably spiritual impulse.
Bold, provocative, and beautifully written, The Persistent Divine reveals the sacred mystery at the heart of the scientific adventure.
Didier Maleuvre is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books on literature, art, philosophy, and the history of ideas, including The A History of Our Infinite Longing (University of California Press) and The Legends of the Modern (Bloomsbury Academic). His work has received wide critical attention for its intellectual ambition, originality, and breadth. The Persistent Spirit in the Age of Equations is his latest and most far-reaching exploration of the enduring questions of knowledge, meaning, and transcendence in the modern world.
242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 29, 2026
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