The William Desmond reader / edited and with an introduction by Christopher Ben Simpson ; foreword by John D. Caputo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, William, 1951-

Contributor:

Simpson, Christopher Ben, 1973-

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

Contents:

Intro

The William Desmond Reader

Contents

Foreword by John D. 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442938

1438442939

OCLC:

830023842