Wolfson also enacts this realist impulse in the prologue to Language, Eros, Being, and it is there that I most want to go in the final part of this chapter. Before I do, however, it is worth pointing out that there is a particular intellectual lineage at work in such moments. Such a realist impulse goes at least as far back as the ecstatic nineteenth-century figure of Friedrich Nietzsche. More immediately, however, it goes back to the Romanian historian of religions Ioan Couliano.
