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Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism (review)

Schelling’s ontological difference implied in the “unruly,” and Heidegger’s concealing and revealing of Seyn through poetry as an ecstatic event (109–25). At times these connections could be more detailed to help guide the reader through this disparate panoply of thinkers and themes, but the argument is nonetheless suggestive. Particularly, Niemoczynski’s use of difference and disjunction forming identity in Heidegger helps make the connection between Firstnesspossibility and Firstness-feeling through attunement clearer (135–39). Niemoczynski’s work provides a thoughtful analysis of Peirce’s Firstness that makes novel connections to themes from Schelling and Heidegger, a truly constructive endeavor that creatively weaves traditionally disparate American and Continental resources. Theologically, it provides an important alternative philosophical framework to process thought for those who seek more systematically to develop the idea of God’s continual becoming. For theologians, the book presents an implicit theological challenge: to phenomenologically enrich the content to those ecstatic events of Firstness-feeling that reveal the abyss of Firstness-possibility. I was left wondering how this philosophical framework could enrich the meaning of existing religious symbols or develop a fuller account of those ecstatic moments that might yield new, more potent symbols. Niemoczynski’s work will likely provoke further abductive theological inquiries for many others as well.