This book presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce's high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter - the quotidian. It argues that the everyday life depicted in Ulysses espouses alternative historical trajectories neglected by traditional historiographic paradigms, which largely deal with great personages and momentous events. The sphere of ordinary life is also where lasting changes must be accomplished if transformations are to happen at all in what gets written or accepted as a posteriori 'history.' Across eight...

This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion.