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This book is a philosophical effort to deal with the problem of otherness, particularly as it has been bequeathed to contemporary thought by the legacy of German idealism, whose most challenging, influential thinker was Hegel.

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Author:   William Desmond
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780227174647

ISBN 10:   022717464
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   25 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Dialectic and Otherness: The Historical Problem The Problem of Otherness: Four Fundamental Possibilities Desire and Origins PART 1: INTENTIONAL INFINITUDE 1. Desire, Lack, and the Absorbing God Finite Desire and Lack Particular Possessions and the Infinitude of Desire The Difficulty of Discourse and Desire Infinite Lack and the Absorbing God Afterword 2. Desire and Original Selfness The Issue in Historical Context The Being of Self and the Difficulty of Discursive Access The Original Self as Fact The Original Self as Ideal The Original Self as Concrete Ideality The Original Self and the Empirical Ego The Original Self and the Transcendental Ego: Being and the I think Afterword 3. Desire's Infinitude and Wholeness Univocal and Equivocal Desire: Wholeness Shortcircuited Intentional Infinitude and Wholeness Between Incompleteness and Absolute Closure: Art and the Dialectical Tension of Wholeness The Open Circle of Desire Afterword PART 2: ACTUAL FINITUDE 4. Desire, Transcendence, and Static Eternity Transcendence, Time, and the Problem of Dualism Desire and Equivocal Becoming Static Eternity and Its Defects Becoming as Process of Positive Othering The Self as Free Becoming The Positive Pluralization of Identity and Difference Afterword 5. Desire, Knowing, and Otherness Immediacy, Self-mediation, and Intermediation Hegel, Identity, and Self-Mediation The Dialectical and the Metaxological Relations Afterword 6. Desire, Concreteness, and Being Desire and the Identification of Otherness Univocal Particularity and Equivocal Predication Dialectical Comprehension and Form The Metaxological Affirmation of Being The Fourfold Sense of Being and Traditional Philosophical Views Afterword 7. Desire, Otherness, and Infinitude Desire, Infinitude, and the Between Three Forms of Infinitude The Sublime and Aesthetic Infinitude Agapeic Otherness Afterword PART 3: ACTUAL INFINITUDE 8. Desire and the Absolute Original The Absolute Original and the Metaxological View The Absolute Original and the Givenness of Being The Absolute Original, the Regulative Ideal, and the Ens Realissimum The Absolute Original as Whole and Infinite The Absolute Original as Beginning and End The Absolute Original, Heights, and Depths The Absolute Original and the Absorbing God The Absolute Original, Man, and the World Afterword Bibliography Index

Reviews

William Desmond is one of the most original and significant voices in contemporary philosophy today. ... This book is recommended to graduate students and upper level philosophy students. It is primarily of interest to those working within areas of metaphysics, ethics, Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and theology. I highly recommend it. -Joshua A. Hurd, Theological Book Review, Vol. 27 No.1, 2016

William Desmond is one of the most original and significant voices in contemporary philosophy today. ... This book is recommended to graduate students and upper level philosophy students. It is primarily of interest to those working within areas of metaphysics, ethics, Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and theology. I highly recommend it. -Joshua A. Hurd, Theological Book Review, Vol. 27 No.1, 2016

Author Information

William Desmond is currently Professor of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. He taught at Loyola in Maryland before going to Leuven where he was Director of the International Program in Philosophy for thirteen years. He is the author of many books, including the trilogy 'Being and the Between' (winner of the Prix Cardinal Mercier and the J. N. Findlay Award for best book in metaphysics, 1995-1997), 'Ethics and the Between', and 'God and the Between'.

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