The William Desmond Reader

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Summary

Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

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Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
List of William Desmond's Works	p. xvii
Metaphysics and Philosophy
The Fourfold Way	p. 3
Transcendences	p. 5
The Truth of Metaphysics	p. 9
What Is Metaphysical Thinking?	p. 15
Metaphysics and Dialectic	p. 23
The Metaxological	p. 33
The Idiocy of Being	p. 47
Agapeic Mind	p. 53
Ethics and Ethos
Autonomy and Freedom	p. 63
The Potencies of the Ethical	p. 69
Metaxological Ethics	p. 73
Religion and the Philosophy of God
Agapeic Origin	p. 87
Breaking the Silence	p. 91
Godlessness	p. 95
Beyond Godlessness	p. 99
Hegel's Counterfeit Double	p. 107
God and the Metaxological Way	p. 115
God and Hyperbole	p. 119
God beyond the Whole	p. 135
God Being Over-Being: A Metaphysical Canto	p. 141
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Being Aesthetic	p. 151
Being at a Loss: On Philosophy and the Tragic	p. 165
Art and Transcendence	p. 183
Retrospections and Reflections
Wording the Between	p. 195
Two Thinks at a Distance: An Interview with William Desmond by Richard Kearney on 9 January 2011	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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