Anomie: Everything, Volume One

Sartre and Camus held that existence is absurd, that consequently meaning is forged through the individual who must create it, a Promethean doctrine of reality which today has come to exercise a grip on us so firmly that we barely notice it, much less ever think to seriously question it. To be sure, the world is absurd. But existence as such? In this debut novel, Christian existentialist Steven DeLay tells the story of a knight of faith’s quest for meaning. In his resulting voyage from the suburbs of Texas to the secret societies of Oxford, he encounters the ineluctable claim of eternity on the everyday. Part fairy tale, noir mystery, psychological thriller, and essay in existential philosophy, Everything’s first volume, Anomie, explores the condition of nihilism in modern culture.

Steven DeLay is a writer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. An Old Member of Christ Church, Oxford, he is the author of Faint Not (2022), In the Spirit (2022), Before God (2020), and Phenomenology in France (2019). He is also the editor of Life above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick (2023) and editor of Finding Meaning: Philosophy in Crisis (2023) based on the series of online essays, Finding Meaning, at 3:16 AM.