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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by John Caputo
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of William Desmond’s Works
Part I. Metaphysics and Philosophy
The Fourfold Way
Transcendences
The Truth of Metaphysics
What Is Metaphysical Thinking?
Metaphysics and Dialectic
The Metaxological
The Idiocy of Being
Agapeic Mind
Part II. Ethics and Ethos
Autonomy and Freedom
The Potencies of the Ethical
Metaxological Ethics
Part III. Religion and the Philosophy of God
Agapeic Origin
Breaking the Silence
Godlessness
Beyond Godlessness
Hegel’s Counterfeit Double
God and the Metaxological Way
God and Hyperbole
God beyond the Whole
God Being Over-Being: A Metaphysical Canto
Part IV. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Being Aesthetic
Being at a Loss: On Philosophy and the Tragic
Art and Transcendence
Part V. Retrospections and Reflections
Wording the Between
‘Two Thinks at a Distance’: An Interview with William Desmond by Richard Kearney on 9 January 2011
Index
Circa l’autore
William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the International Program in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of many books, including the award-winning Being and the Between; Ethics and the Between; and coeditor (with Joseph Grange) of Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics as a Cultural Presence; all published by SUNY Press.
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