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Yet Chappell\u2019s method of using phenomenological descriptions to show that we live by our epiphanies leaves open the question of their\n                    <jats:italic>authority<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Why should the epiphanic carry more authority than more sober experiences? The answer, I\u00a0argue, had better be sensitive to our explanatory understanding of epiphanies. Moreover, it should be sensitive to how the very power of epiphanies threatens to distort our experience of other values. We must beware of what Lichtenberg called\n                    <jats:italic>transcendent ventriloquism<\/jats:italic>\n                    , whereby subjective experience is made to sound like something more than what it is\u2014an eternal truth to be enacted at any cost. I\u00a0then turn to the\n                    <jats:italic>politics<\/jats:italic>\n                    of epiphanic experience: how to live together given that we live by different epiphanies. I raise several problems for Chappell\u2019s proposal that the normativity inherent in conversation both imposes transcendental constraints on epiphanic ethics and is determinate enough to prescribe specific political arrangements. These constraints determine either too little or too much; they come too late not to beg crucial questions; they cannot offer an independent check on epiphanic ethics; and they introduce a\u00a0tension at the heart of the book between the romantic openness to experience, emotion, and enthusiasm and the rationalist aspiration to exclude non-rational influences. 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