 Susman’s insistence on the underlying role of religion for understanding metaphysics and the task of philosophical inquiry as well as modern life more generally remains constant. Her analysis of the modern condition recognizes the philosophical necessity of understanding the religious dimension of the experience of modernity. Informed by a post-secular sensibility, Susman views the religious dimension as determinative of the grounds from which metaphysics arises. For Susman, philosophy must therefore include the practice of addressing the significance of its own theological-political commitments.