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William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics

Author : Dennis Vanden Auweele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319989928
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics written by Dennis Vanden Auweele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthetic dimensions of human becoming. Interest in metaxological philosophy has been on the rise in recent years, and this volume provides both a practical introduction and thorough engagements with it by experts in the field. The volume concludes with a series of responses by William Desmond on the issues raised by the contributors.

Art, Origins, Otherness

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791486680
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Art, Origins, Otherness written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.

Ethics and the Between

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791491218
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the Between written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethics and the Between William Desmond addresses our current perplexities regarding the devaluation of being in modernity and the shadow of ethical nihilism. He rethinks the sources of value, the diverse ethical ways, the nature of ethical selving and communities, and articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good, consonant with the response to the question of being in Being and the Between, the first book of a planned trilogy.

The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532617100
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being written by William Desmond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer’s dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss’s creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.

The William Desmond Reader

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442912
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The William Desmond Reader written by William Desmond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

Philosophy and Its Others

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791403075
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Its Others written by William Desmond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own distinctive voice. He develops an original and constructive position between these extremes: the Hegelian extreme which reduces the plurality of others to a dialectical totality and the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive options that celebrate plurality, but without a proper sense of the connectedness of philosophy and its others.

Between System and Poetics

Author : Thomas A.F. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174976
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Between System and Poetics written by Thomas A.F. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. His thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he calls the ’between’. Rooted in Plato and Augustine, and advancing through a confrontation with Hegel and Nietzsche, Desmond rejects facile scepticism and wins through to a strikingly original and powerfully searching articulation of the human. The present volume contains essays on Desmond’s work both by emerging scholars and by well-established thinkers. It also contains a specially written essay on the practices of philosophy by Desmond himself.

William Desmond and Contemporary Theology

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268102244
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book William Desmond and Contemporary Theology written by Christopher Ben Simpson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In William Desmond and Contemporary Theology, Christopher Simpson and Brendan Sammon coordinate, through a collection of scholarly essays, a timely exploration of William Desmond’s work on theology and metaphysics, bringing the disciplines of philosophy and theology together in new and vital ways. The book examines the contribution that Desmond’s metaphysics makes to contemporary theological discourse and to the renewal of metaphysics. A central issue for the contributors is the renewal of metaphysics within the post-metaphysical, or anti-metaphysical, context of late modernity. This volume not only capably demonstrates the viability of the metaphysical tradition but also illuminates its effectiveness and value in dealing with the many issues in contemporary theological conversation. William Desmond and Contemporary Theology presents Desmond’s contemporary, yet historically aware, continental metaphysics as able to provide revealing insights for the discussion of the relation between philosophy and theology. Simpson and Sammon argue, moreover, that Desmond’s contribution to linking these two fields makes his an important voice in the academic conversation. Students and scholars of Desmond, contemporary philosophy, theology, and literature will find much to provoke thought in this collection. Contributors: John R. Betz, Christopher R. Brewer, Patrick X. Gardner, Joseph K. Gordon, Renée Köhler-Ryan, D. Stephen Long, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Cyril O’Regan, Brendan Thomas Sammon, D. C. Schindler, Christopher Ben Simpson, and Corey Benjamin Tutewiler.

Being and the Between

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422717
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Being and the Between written by William Desmond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.

The Intimate Universal

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154300X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Universal written by William Desmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

The Intimate Strangeness of Being

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813219604
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Strangeness of Being written by William Desmond and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being.

Hegel's God

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931121
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Hegel's God written by William Desmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of Christianity into account in his philosophizing. This book presents a new examination, interpretation and critical engagement with Hegel's philosophy of religion, and with his concept of God in particular. William Desmond explores the distinctive stresses of Hegel's approach to God, the influence it has exerted, and the fundamental problems that his approach exhibits.

Perplexity and Ultimacy

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400969
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Perplexity and Ultimacy written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desmond writes about the metaphysical perplexity that cannot be identified with scientific or commonsense curiosity. This perplexity is in another dimension of thought, asking questions about what precedes and exceeds the determinate intelligibilities of science and common sense. Desmond explores what this perplexity is, especially in so far as it is shadowed by the question of ultimacy. This work complements Desmond's Being and the Between.

Art and the Absolute

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400926
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Art and the Absolute written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and the Absolute restores Hegel's aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust of contemporary philosophy. The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, exploring the multifaceted issue of art and the absolute. Why does Hegel ascribe absoluteness to art? What can such absoluteness mean? How does it relate to religion and philosophy? How does Hegel's view of art illuminate the contemporary absence of the absolute? Art and the Absolute argues that these aesthetic questions are not mere theoretical conundrums for abstract analysis. It argues that Hegel's understanding of art can provide an indispensable hermeneutic relevant to current controversies. Art and the Absolute explores the intricacies of Hegel's aesthetic thought, communicating its contemporary relevance. It shows how for Hegel art illuminates the other areas of significant human experience such as history, religion, politics, literature. Against traditional, closed views, the result is a challenge to re-read Hegel's aesthetic philosophy.

Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630870439
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness written by William Desmond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive and positive approach to the problem of difference and otherness. He systematically explores the question of dialectic and otherness by analyzing how human desire inevitably seeks immanent wholeness in a manner that opens it to irreducible otherness. He faces the difficulties bequeathed to Continental thought by Hegelian dialectic and its tendency to subordinate difference to identity, whether appropriately or not. Unlike many recent critics of Hegel, he argues that we must preserve what is genuine in dialectic. Granting the positive power of dialectic, Desmond offers his first articulation of a further philosophical possibility--what he terms the Metaxological--a discourse of the "between," a discourse doing justice to desire's search for wholeness without any truncating of its radical openness to otherness. In a wide-ranging yet unified discussion, Desmond tackles such issues as the nature of the self, the ambiguous restlessness and inherent power of being revealed by human desire, desire's relation to transcendence, its openness to otherness in agapeic good will and in relation to the sublime as an aesthetic infinitude. Finally, Desmond brings this metaxological understanding to bear on the metaphysical question of the ultimate origin. This book is a remarkable introduction to Desmond's metaxological philosophy, prefiguring many of the ideas with which his later thought is associated. This second edition contains a substantial new preface and an afterword to each chapter in which Desmond reflects on the material from the standpoint of his current thinking.

The Voiding of Being

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy & the Hi
ISBN 13 : 0813232481
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Voiding of Being written by William Desmond and published by Studies in Philosophy & the Hi. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author amplifies important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, exploring diverse aspects of current skepticism and offering a defense in terms of his metaxological metaphysics. Along the way he engages both the long tradition and more modern writers, such as Heidegger and Marion"--

Wonder Strikes

Author : Steven E. Knepper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438489579
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Wonder Strikes written by Steven E. Knepper and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Desmond argues that philosophy, religion, and art begin in wonder. Desmond is widely recognized for his original metaphysics and his provocative philosophy of religion. Desmond's extensive writings on aesthetics, art, and literature, however, have received much less attention. Wonder Strikes is the first book-length examination of these dimensions of Desmond's thought. It offers nuanced commentary on his treatment of beauty and the sublime; his accounts of tragedy and comedy; and his argument that, having asked "too much" of art in modernity, we now ask "too little." Desmond claims that art, philosophy, and religion must recover their ancient kinship and their shared roots in wonder if they are to counter the destructive instrumentalism of our time.