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Being and the Between
Häftad, 1995
528 kr
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The culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysicsAs 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 …
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins (2nd Edition)
Häftad, 2014
356 kr
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An erudite post-Hegelian exploration of the metaphysics of human desire and its relevance to philosophical issues of difference and otherness.Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favours sameness over otherness or identity over difference. …
The Intimate Universal
The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics
Inbunden, 2016
643 kr
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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. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond …
Greek Praise of Poverty
Origins of Ancient Cynicism
Inbunden, 2006
1479 kr
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William Desmond, taking issue with typical assessments of the ancient Cynics, contends that figures such as Antisthenes and Diogenes were not cultural outcasts or marginal voices in the classical culture of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Rather, the Cynic movement had deep and significant …
Greek Praise of Poverty
Origins of Ancient Cynicism
Häftad, 2006
524 kr
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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 philosophical thought contains explicit criticisms of wealth and praise of poverty. This is a work of …
Godsends
From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation
Inbunden, 2021
1129 kr
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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 own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological …
God and the Between
E-bok, 2008
1515 kr
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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. Makes an important new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religion …
Hegel's God
A Counterfeit Double?
Inbunden, 2003
2754 kr
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Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of …
Hegel's God
A Counterfeit Double?
Häftad, 2003
694 kr
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Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of …
Philosophy and Its Others
Ways of Being and Mind
Häftad, 1990
504 kr
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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 …
Art, Origins, Otherness
Between Philosophy and Art
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves …
Voiding of Being
The Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity
Häftad, 2025
389 kr
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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 defence of metaphysics. In other works, perhaps most fully in Being and the Between, William Desmond …
Is There a Sabbath for Thought?
Between Religion and Philosophy
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book's meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, …
Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity
Inbunden, 2011
2130 kr
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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 perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power. In antiquity, who were or aspired to be …
Art and the Absolute
A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1986
1286 kr
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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 of contemporary philosophy.The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, …
Cynics
E-bok, 2014
746 kr
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Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of …
Cynics
E-bok, 2014
762 kr
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Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of …
Hegel's God
A Counterfeit Double?
E-bok, 2017
796 kr
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Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of …
Hegel's God
A Counterfeit Double?
E-bok, 2017
814 kr
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Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of …
Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism
Av William Desmond, Ernst-Otto Onnasch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1095 kr
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This book contains the selected proceedings of a conference on Religion in German Idealism which took place in Nij- gen (Netherlands) in January 2000. The conference was - ganized by the Centre of German Idealism, which co-or- nates the research on classical German philosophy in the Netherlands and …
God and the Between
Inbunden, 2007
1297 kr
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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. Makes an important new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religionSuggests …
God and the Between
Häftad, 2007
596 kr
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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. Makes an important new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religionSuggests …
William Desmond Reader
Av William Desmond, Christopher Ben Simpson
Inbunden, 2012
1041 kr
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Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his mark on the philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. …
Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity
E-bok, 2011
608 kr
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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 perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power.In antiquity, who were or aspired to be …
Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity
Häftad, 2013
560 kr
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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 perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power.In antiquity, who were or aspired to be …
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2013
515 kr
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Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious
E-bok, 2018
728 kr
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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 passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic …
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
Häftad, 2013
344 kr
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Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
E-bok, 2013
589 kr
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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 …
Cynics
Häftad, 2008
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650 kr
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Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of …
