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- The William Desmond Reader
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- 2012
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond. Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his mark on the philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. The William Desmond Reader provides for the first time in a single book a point of entry into his original and constructive philosophy, including carefully chosen selections of his works that introduce the key ideas, perspectives, and contributions of his philosophy as a whole. Also featured is an original essay by Desmond himself reflecting synthetically on the topics covered, as well as an interview by Richard Kearney.
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xvi
- List of William Desmond’s Works
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Part I: Metaphysics and Philosophy
- The Fourfold Way
- pp. 3-4
- Transcendences
- pp. 5-8
- The Truth of Metaphysics
- pp. 9-14
- What Is Metaphysical Thinking?
- pp. 15-22
- Metaphysics and Dialectic
- pp. 23-32
- The Metaxological
- pp. 33-46
- The Idiocy of Being
- pp. 47-52
- Agapeic Mind
- pp. 53-60
- Part II: Ethics and Ethos
- Autonomy and Freedom
- pp. 63-68
- The Potencies of the Ethical
- pp. 69-72
- Metaxological Ethics
- pp. 73-84
- Part III: Religion and the Philosophy of God
- Agapeic Origin
- pp. 87-90
- Breaking the Silence
- pp. 91-94
- Godlessness
- pp. 95-98
- Beyond Godlessness
- pp. 99-106
- Hegel’s Counterfeit Double
- pp. 107-114
- God and the Metaxological Way
- pp. 115-118
- God and Hyperbole
- pp. 119-134
- God beyond the Whole
- pp. 135-140
- God Being Over-Being: A Metaphysical Canto
- pp. 141-148
- Part IV: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
- Being Aesthetic
- pp. 151-164
- Art and Transcendence
- pp. 183-192
- Part V: Retrospections and Reflections
- Wording the Between
- pp. 195-228
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ISBN
9781438442938
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OCLC
830023842
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
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No
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