ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |25 pages
William Desmond on Philosophy
part |13 pages
Desmond and Irish Philosophy
part |41 pages
Reading Desmond
chapter |12 pages
Metaxological Metaphysics and Idiotic Style
part |29 pages
Desmond and Metaphysics
part |37 pages
Desmond, Love and the Good
chapter |12 pages
The Equivocity of Freedom and the Suffering of Being
part |27 pages
Desmond on Eros
part |11 pages
Desmond and God
part |13 pages
Reading with Desmond
part |77 pages
Desmond, Science, the Arts and the Environment