The intimate strangeness of being : metaphysics after dialectic / William Desmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, William, 1951-

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 56.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 56

Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy; Series ; v.v. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being.

Contents:

Part 1. Metaphysics and the equivocities of dialectic. Being, determination, and dialectic : on the sources of metaphysical thinking

Thinking on the double : the equivocities of dialectic

Surplus immediacy, metaphysical thinking, and the defect(ion) of Hegel's concept

Part 2. Metaphysics in the wake of dialectic. Is there metaphysics after critique?

Metaphysics and the intimate strangeness of being : neither deconstruction nor reconstruction

Part 3. Metaphysics beyond dialectic. Metaxological metaphysics and the equivocity of the everyday : between everydayness and the edge of eschatology

Pluralism, truthfulness, and the patience of being

The confidence of thought : between belief and metaphysics

Analogy, dialectic, and divine transcendence : between St. Thomas and Hegel

Ways of wondering : beyond the barbarism of reflection.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-1961-2

OCLC:

813928740