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William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics

Thinking Metaxologically

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Editors:
  1. Dennis Vanden Auweele

    1. KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

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  • Discusses the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy from the perspective of William Desmond

  • Considers the contribution of metaxology to debates in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, philosophical theology, and aesthetics

  • Includes a response from William Desmond

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Dennis Vanden Auweele
    Pages 1-12

  4. Absolute Being and Talking God

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. The Metaxology of the Divine Names

      • Brendan Thomas Sammon
      Pages 95-111

    3. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between

      • Mark F. Novak
      Pages 113-128

    4. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological

      • Patrick Ryan Cooper
      Pages 129-148

  5. Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought

      • Cyril O’Regan
      Pages 151-176

    3. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being

      • Roberto Dell’Oro
      Pages 177-193

    4. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy

      • Dennis Vanden Auweele
      Pages 195-207

    5. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of Its Eclipse: William Desmond Contra Giorgio Agamben

      • Philip John Paul Gonzales
      Pages 209-225

  6. On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God

      • Sander Griffioen
      Pages 229-242

    3. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology

      • Josephien van Kessel
      Pages 243-256

    4. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies

      • Philip A. Gottschalk
      Pages 257-267
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About this book

This volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthetic dimensions of human becoming. Interest in metaxological philosophy has been on the rise in recent years, and this volume provides both a practical introduction and thorough engagements with it by experts in the field. The volume concludes with a series of responses by William Desmond on the issues raised by the contributors.


Reviews

“William Desmond’s work is like a sparkling, multi-faceted diamond. Its many faces expand and enrich its deep inner core (the idea of the between) without compromising its integrity.  This volume is multi-faceted in two further ways.  Its contributors come at Desmond’s work from a rich variety of places on the philosophical landscape, and in so doing they bring his work into constructive engagement with an equally rich variety of other thinkers, traditions, and themes.” (Merrold Westphal, author of In Praise of Heteronomy and Overcoming Onto-Theology)

“This is an artful collection of the work of the highest order by the leading luminaries in the field. It is a fitting tribute to the work of William Desmond, one of the most important continental philosophers of religion of the day. A must read.” (John D. Caputo, author of The Weakness of God) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

    Dennis Vanden Auweele

About the editor

Dennis Vanden Auweele is a postdoctoral researcher (FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism (2017) and Pessimism in Kant’s Ethics and Rational Religion (forthcoming).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics

  • Book Subtitle: Thinking Metaxologically

  • Editors: Dennis Vanden Auweele

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98992-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98991-4Published: 20 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07554-5Published: 26 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98992-1Published: 08 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 343

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Aesthetics

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