ABSTRACT
We now turn to the question: What is this emerging genre of knowledge? I have proposed that spiritually-engaged knowledge is situated within both an ethical and a spiritual horizon, and will now explore this ethical dimension through the discursive systems of post-deconstructive ethics, feminism, developmental and transpersonal psychologies, and environmentalism. In each of these different domains an ethical horizon can be identified which points us beyond the discursive boundary marked out by deconstructive postmodernism into 'the dimension of otherness and transcendence beyond Being1 (Levinas, 1995:193). Any ethic, I suggest, which endeavours to relate to the global domain, but also seeks to avoid becoming a metanarrative, ultimately demands a spiritual horizon that offers a way beyond the limits of discursivity.
