The book records the author's personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a being-in-the-world the author's experiences reach from World War II via the Cold War to recent terror wars. Intellectually he participated in and reacted to a number of major perspectives: from phenomenology existentialism and critical theory to hermeneutics postmodernism and post-secularism. Exchanges with multiples interlocutors helped to shape his distinctive outlook or profile; which privileges self-other contacts over the ego dialogue over monologue and dialogical cosmopolitanism over chauvinistic power politics. Implicit in this emerging profile is a preference for potentiality over actuality and of relationality over static identity. Shunning doctrinal formulas or finished systems the author's life thus is shown to be simply a journey an adventure to what comes an itinerary (mentis in Deum). Language: English