Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language

by Wesley J. Wildman

Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century , both also published by SUNY Press.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2018

About the author

Wesley J. Wildman was raised in a quiet corner of Australia, fell in love with universities, and became a professor in the United States. Dr. Wildman has been writing about philosophy, religion, and spirituality for thirty years. He is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics and of Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University, as well as Professor II in the Institute for Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder in Norway. He is also executive director of Just Horizons Alliance and Chief Scientist of the Center for Mind and Culture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to non-partisan research on such complex social problems as social integration of immigrants and refugees, religious self-radicalization, spiraling suicide rates, and illegal child trafficking. Dr. Wildman is a well-published nonfiction writer, with titles such as Spirit Tech: The Brave New World of Consciousness Hacking and Enlightenment Engineering (with Kate Stockly; St. Martin’s Press, 2021) and Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language (SUNY Press, 2018). The Winding Way Home (Wildhouse Publications, 2023), is his first novel.