William Desmond's Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics: Thinking Metaxologically

by Dennis Vanden Auweele

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030075545
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/26/2019
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Pages:	343
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part 1: Being, Knowing, and Intimacy

2. Number and the Between, by John Milbank

3. True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics, by D.C. Schindler

4. Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, by Daniel Minch

5. Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy, by Sandra Lehmann

Part 2: Absolute Being and Talking God

6. The Metaxology of the Divine Names, by Brendan Thomas Sammon

7. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between, by Mark F. Novak

8. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological, by Patrick Ryan Cooper

Part 3: Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness

9. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought, by Cyril O’Regan

10. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being, by Roberto Dell’Oro

11. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy, by Dennis Vanden Auweele

12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales

Part 4: On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism

13. The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God, by Sander Griffioen

14. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology, by Josephien van Kessel

15. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies, by Philip A. Gottschalk

Part 5: Creation, Embodied Being and Beauty

16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney

17. On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu, by Renée Kohler-Ryan

18. Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between, by Alexandra Romanyshyn

19. Responding Metaxologically, by William Desmond

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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)