For Bentley, there was no such thing as a transcendent public interest, and no politics that didn't involve dealmaking, disguised or not.
To an unusual extent, our Presidential candidates this year got where they are by presenting themselves as reformers, as champions of the transcendent public interest — as the enemies of Washington dealmaking-as-usual.
More recently, with no transcendent American star, interest has waned.
Whatever secularists might propose, they do not have the arrogance to assume that a supreme being is somehow transcendent and also interested in their politics, business deals and football games.
These interests are transcendent.
If Kivinen's work is essentially modern in process, and his content concerned with the contemporary, his interest lies in transcendent truths, so much so that his personal philosophy occasionally overpowers his artwork.
Read in this way, Kant's Dialectic offers a criticism not only of the specific arguments of metaphysics, but also of transcendent, metaphysical (speculative or theoretical) interests and propensities themselves.
In the midst of his existence there unfolds the bond (re-ligio) which ties him to the infinitely transcendent mystery of God, the insatiable interest in the absolute that captivates the person and underlines his poverty.
Subjects acquired autonomy by freeing themselves from particular interests, and by repudiating transcendent universals, religious and political institutions which claimed to be underivable from self-consciousness, and exempt from history.
That surrender of self-interest to a pure transcendent principle brings a whole new meaning to the term "immaculate conception" -- one that's not gender-specific.
