This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of
human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its
assumptions with respect to the total being of the human and how it curbs the ontological
sensibilities of the human. Kaustuv Roy argues that since secular reason of modernity can only
represent the empirical dimension of existence humans are forced to privatize the
non-empirical dimension of being. It is therefore absent from the social imaginary as well as
public discourse. This one-sidedness is the root cause of many of the ills facing modernity.
Roy contends that a bridge-consciousness that praxeologically relates the secular and the
non-secular domains of experience is the need of the hour.
