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William Desmond
Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.
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Bruce Long
By reprinting over 400 items from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, this book reveals Taylor’s life in Hollywood-from his arrival as a minor actor in 1912 until his death…
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This book presents William Desmond’s contemporary, yet historically aware, continental metaphysics as able to provide revealing insights for the discussion of the relation between philosophy and theology.
An erudite post-Hegelian exploration of the metaphysics of human desire and its significance for philosophical issues of difference and otherness.
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…
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…
This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.
Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy–the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.
Articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good.
Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.
Art and the Absolute restores Hegel’s aesthetics to a place of central importance in the Hegelian system. In so doing, it brings Hegel into direct relation with the central thrust…
This book deals with fundamental problems in Hegel and with Hegel in relation to Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, Heidegger, Husserl, Derrida, and Bataille. It reveals Hegel’s power to provoke both…
An examination, interpretation and critical engagement with Hegel’s philosophy of religion, and with his concept of God in particular. William Desmond explores the distinctive stresses of Hegel’s approach to God…
This book dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. It pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace…
About the Contributor(s): William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University.
Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology.
For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project-replete with its…
Explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being.
In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here explore diverse aspects of this contested status and offer a…
An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit, drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion.
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Offers a survey of Cynicism, its varied representatives and ideas, and the many contexts in which it operated. This work introduces some of the important ancient Cynics and their times…
Offers a survey of Cynicism, its varied representatives and ideas, and the many contexts in which it operated. This book introduces important ancient Cynics and their times, from Diogenes ‘the…
Steven E. Knepper
The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond’s approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.
Rick Geary
Famous early film director William Taylor is found shot dead in his home - a classic mystery as only Rick Geary can tell them.
Dr William Desmond
One of the most celebrated of Plato’s ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers. In a…
William Desmond (KU Leuven)
William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. By observing their…
This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the…
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Christopher Ben Simpson
William Desmond’s original and creative work in metaphysics is attracting more and more attention from philosophers of religion. Putting Desmond in conversation with John D. Caputo, an important philosopher of…
Examines the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. Desmond’s thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he calls the ‘between’ which is…
Professor William Desmond
Explains Cynicism’s rise in popularity in the ancient world by exploring the set of attitudes that collectively formed the Greek praise of poverty. The author argues that economic, military, and…
William Desmond (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium)
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…
Pablo Muchnik,Christopher D. Shaw
On Exceeding Determination and the Ideal of Reason: Immanuel Kant, William Desmond, and the Noumenological Principle examines the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as it bears on theological principles.
Dr Takeshi Morisato
This book brings together the work of two significant figures in contemporary philosophy. By considering the work of Tanabe Hajime, the Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School, and William Desmond…
