Being and dialectic : metaphysics and culture / edited by William Desmond and Joseph Grange.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desmond, William, 1951-

Grange, Joseph, 1940-

Series:

SUNY series in Hegelian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--Congresses.

Metaphysics.

Dialectic--Congresses.

Dialectic.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Summary:

Philosophy without metaphysics is unthinkable, yet there has been much discussion of this -- the end of metaphysics, or post-metaphysical thinking. This book takes issue with this proclamation of the end of metaphysics. It offers diverse arguments that metaphysics cannot be put behind us and has its own continuing contribution to the life of human culture. The contributors are a diverse group of thinkers whose work obviates the divide between analytic and continental philosophy. Here they explore the relations to metaphysics and dialectic, with regard to sources, to major themes, to individual thinkers, and to dialectic seen in cross-cultural perspective.

Contents:

1. "Being, Determination, and Dialectic: On the Sources of Metaphysical Thinking" / William Desmond 3

2. "Marking Distinctions and Making Differences: Being As Dialectic" / Vincent Colapietro 37

3. "Dialectic As Conflict" / David Weissman 57

4. "Dialectical Conflict and the Place of Difference" / Brian Martine 69

5. "It's Nothing to Laugh About: The Limits of Determinacy and the Altogether Not" / Carl Page 85

6. "Contexts without Absolutes" / George Allan 101

7. "Interruption and Exposure: The Abundance of the Earth" / Stephen David Ross 125

8. "Dialectical Pluralism in the Work of Paul Weiss" / Kevin Kennedy 143

9. "Metaphysics As a Cultural Presence: Dialectical and Metaxological Thought in the Philosophy of William Desmond" / Giacomo Rinaldi 155

Part IV Being and Dialectic in Cross-Cultural Perspective

10. "The Dialectic of Being in Cross-Cultural Perspective" / Robert Cummings Neville 179

11. "On Looking Up 'Dialectics' in a Chinese Dictionary" / David L. Hall 197.

Notes:

"Essays ... delivered at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America, held in the spring of 1995 at Loyola College in Baltimore"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791446255

0791446263

OCLC:

42680364