This volume explores the question of how the subject in contemporary philosophy can be one and multiple at the same time. The author locates the subject's unity between various existential positions, comparing this phenomenon to the movement of the dancer through space.

In Dancing Souls Bencivenga addresses the crucial question of how the subject can be one and multiple at the same time. He finds that this phenomenon is like the disciplined movement of the dancer through space. Bencivenga explores the structure of this ontological betweenness in its various levels of complexity from the most intimately personal to the communal and the political.