The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic

by William Desmond

Publisher:

Catholic University of America

, 2012

Overview

This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being. There is a mysterious strangeness to being at all, and yet there is also something intimate. Without the intimacy, argues William Desmond, we become strangers in being; without the mystery, we take being for granted. The book locates the origin of metaphysics’ contested place in recessed equivocations in Kantian critique and Hegelian dialectic, equivocations that keep from view the more original sources of metaphysical thinking. It takes issue with contemporary claims about the “overcoming of metaphysics” associated with Heidegger, the “deconstruction of metaphysics” associated with Derrida, as well as with claims that a new “postmetaphysical thinking” is necessary.

Contents

Top Highlights

“some dismissals of totalizing thought are often themselves hugely totalizing.” (Page xvi)

“the call of truthful fidelity to the sourcing powers of the ‘to be.’” (Page xvii)

“I would say that ontology itself is unavoidably metaxological, and hence even when turned toward being ‘in the midst’ cannot be abstracted from the intermediate space of being which also proves itself porous to what is ‘beyond.’” (Page xix)

“metaxological mindfulness of the intimate strangeness of being.” (Page xxii)

Product Details

• Title: The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics after Dialectic
• Author: William Desmond
• Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
• Volume: 56
• Publisher: Catholic University of America
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Metaphysics; Philosophy, Modern
• ISBNs: 9780813219608, 0813219604
• Resource ID: LLS:NTMTSTRNGNDLCTC
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:29:38Z

About William Desmond

William Desmond is professor of philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned his MA from the National University of Ireland and PhD from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Desmond is a Hegel expert, and he specializes in philosophy and religion. He is the author or editor of over a dozen scholarly works.