Length3h 13m
About this audiobook
The Ontology of Transcendence is the fourth volume in The Litanies Ov Fire cycle—a sweeping, metaphysical descent into ache, existence, ruin, longing, and the terrible beauty of consciousness. In this work, Jacob A. Eder continues his signature fusion of poetic prose, quantum metaphysics, theology, and ontological despair, weaving a text that reads like scripture written at the edge of collapse.
Here, creation is not celebrated but interrogated. Suffering is not avoided but dissected. Existence is placed on trial. Through recursive lamentations, cosmic inquiry, and elegiac philosophical meditations, Eder confronts the ancient paradoxes at the heart of sentience: Why must life depend on death? Why is love doomed to loss? Why does consciousness awaken only to witness its own undoing?
It is stark, beautiful, ruinous. It's Eder, unbound.
For readers of Ligotti, Nietzsche, Blake and the darker edges of consciousness studies.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePhilosophy, Psychology
Length3 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 8, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Copyright Page
3Dedication
4Contents
5Praeludium
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6Inception, Inceptionless: The Abyss Within
7On Nature: The Futility of Being
8The Science of Grief and the Breaking of the Heart
9On the Cruel Architecture of Life
10On the Ending of the Cycle
11On the Finality of the Self
12On the Absence of a Singular Solution
13In Fear & Trepidation
14The Coefficient of Knowing
15Conquerless
16The Order of Creation Reconsidered
17The Dust and the Divine
18Postludium
19More by this Author
20About the Author
21Copyright Page
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