This monograph interrogates cultural figures from Augustine and Dante Alighieri to Spinoza, Bataille, Deleuze, Nancy and Žižek to This monograph interrogates cultural figures from Augustine and Dante Alighieri to Spinoza, Bataille, Deleuze, Nancy and Žižek to Henry James, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison and popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of instituting a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the emancipatory creative life. and popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of instituting a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the emancipatory creative life.