Desire Dialectic And Otherness

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620321610
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( 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 293 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.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227902742
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness written by William Desmond and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical effort to deal with the problem of otherness, particularly as it has been bequeathed to contemporary thought by the legacy of German idealism, whose most challenging, influential thinker was Hegel.

Author : Thomas A.F. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174968
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( 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 315 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.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400969
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( 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.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422717
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( 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.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400934
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being and the Between written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Plato told us long ago, the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between. How do we philosophize in between? W hat is the being of the between? This book answers the question in the most comprehensive terms possible. It offers an original understanding of metaphysical thinking and the fundamental senses of being, namely, the univocal, equivocal, dialectical, and metaxological senses. Part I of Being and the Between focuses on the nature of metaphysics, the question of being, in terms of the above fourfold sense. Part II develops a metaphysics of being as between, relative to our basic perplexities, concerning origin, creation, things, intelligibilities, selves, communities, being true, being good. The book calls for a generous hermeneutical rethinking of the philosophical tradition. Major figures and positions are reinterpreted. Desmond addresses the issue, common since Hegel, endemic since Heidegger, concerning the end of metaphysics. Granting a proper understanding of the between, Desmond believes that we need a resurrection of metaphysics, where the old perplexities, ever new, stand before us again.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791403075
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( 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.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Suny Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Hegel and Dialectic written by William Desmond and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. He covers the interpretation of Hegelian speculation in terms of the metataxological notion of being and the concept of philosophy that Desmond has developed in two previous works, Philosophy and Its Others, and Desire, Dialectic and Otherness. Though Hegel is Desmond's primary interlocuter, there are references to Aristophanes, Socrates, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida. Desmond is concerned with the limits of philosophy. The themes of the essays include speculation and historicism, speculation and cult, speculation and representation, evil and dialectic, logos and the comedy of failure.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791423875
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perplexity and Ultimacy written by William Desmond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy--the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.

Author : Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813230705
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Art written by Daniel O. Dahlstrom and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 essays in this collection are marked by a diversity of philosophical styles and perspectives on art. While some authors focus on specific forms of art, others are more concerned with the interpretation given to art by past and contemporary philosop