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    God and the Between.William Desmond - 2008 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    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 Suggests that this junction is not just dictated by religion having to prove its credentials to rational philosophy, but that it is also a matter of philosophy wondering if religion is the ultimate partner in dialogue Includes discussion of (...)
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    Ethics and the Between.William Desmond - 2001 - State University of New York Press.
    Articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good.
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    Hegel's God: A Counterfeit Double?William Desmond - 2003 - Gower Publishing.
    William Desmond's misgivings regarding Hegel's take on God leads the reader through Hegel's writings to reveal a path that leads anywhere but to God. The author believes that an idol is no less an idol constructed from thought as constructed from gold.
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    Being and the Between: Political Theory in the American Academy.William Desmond - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.
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    Index.William Desmond - 2008 - In God and the Between. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 341–347.
    The prelims comprise: Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface List of Abbreviations.
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    Art and the Absolute: A Study In Hegel’s Aesthetics.William Desmond - 1986 - State University of New York Press.
    The book draws on the astonishing scope and depths of Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, exploring the multifaceted issue of art and the absolute. Why does Hegel ascribe absoluteness to art? What can such absoluteness mean?
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    The Greek Praise of Poverty: The Origins of Ancient Cynicism.William D. Desmond - 2006 - University of Notre Dame Press.
    "Rich in new and stimulating ideas, and based on the breadth of reading and depth of knowledge which its wide-ranging subject matter requires, _The Greek Praise of Poverty_ argues impressively and cogently for a relocation of Cynic philosophy into the mainstream of Greek ideas on material prosperity, work, happiness, and power." —_A. Thomas Cole, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Yale University _ "This clear, well-written book offers scholars and students an accessible account of the philosophy of Cynicism, particularly with regard to (...)
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    Is there a sabbath for thought?: between religion and philosophy.William Desmond - 2005 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical andthe religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elementalexperiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine.William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel,Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophicalmindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty,imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war.Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond (...)
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    Perplexity and Ultimacy: Metaphysical Thoughts From the Middle.William Desmond - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy--the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.
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    The intimate universal: the hidden porosity among religion, art, philosophy, and politics.William Desmond - 2016 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    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. By observing their permeable relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.
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    Cynics.William Desmond & Steven Gerrard - 2008 - University of California Press.
    Far from being pessimistic or nihilistic, as modern uses of the term "cynic" suggest, the ancient Cynics were astonishingly optimistic regarding human nature. They believed that if one simplified one's life—giving up all unnecessary possessions, desires, and ideas—and lived in the moment as much as possible, one could regain one's natural goodness and happiness. It was a life exemplified most famously by the eccentric Diogenes, nicknamed "the Dog," and his followers, called dog-philosophers, _kunikoi, _or Cynics. Rebellious, self-willed, and ornery but (...)
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    Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art.William Desmond - 2003 - State University of New York Press.
    Addresses the end of art and the task of metaphysics.
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    Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy.William Desmond - 1992 - State University of New York Press.
    This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. He covers the interpretation of Hegelian speculation in terms of the metataxological notion of being and the concept of philosophy that Desmond has developed in two previous works, Philosophy and Its Others, and Desire, Dialectic and Otherness. Though Hegel is Desmond’s primary interlocuter, there are references to Aristophanes, Socrates, Plato, (...)
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    Truth, Theft and Gift: Thoughts on Alētheia.William Desmond - 2024 - Filozofia 79 (4):351-364.
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    The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being.William Desmond - 2018 - Maynooth Philosophical Papers 9:21-42.
    This is a reflection on the gift of beauty and the passion of being in light of the fact that today we often meet an ambiguous attitude to beauty. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us. Bland beauty seems to be the death of originality. How then be open at all to beauty as gift? In fact, we often are disturbed paradoxically by beauty: both taken (...)
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    Hegel, Dialectic, and Deconstruction.William Desmond - 1985 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 18 (4):244 - 263.
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    Flux-Gibberish: For and Against Heraclitus.William Desmond - 2017 - Review of Metaphysics 70 (3).
    The article is a reflection occasioned by an impression of Aristotle’s irritation at the views of the Heracliteans. It offers a reflection that is inspired by, companioned by Heraclitus. It looks at aspects of the approaches of Hegel and Nietzsche as also taking a companioning approach. There is something resistant in Heraclitus’s mode of articulation that makes one diffident in claiming that now at last one is the privileged one to understand him. Heraclitus offers us striking thoughts that strike one (...)
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    Godsends. On the Surprise of Revelation.William Desmond - 2016 - Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 92 (1):7-28.
    © 2016 by Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. All rights reserved. I want to reflect on the nature of revelation by means of the idea of the "godsend". While seeming to be ordinary this word carries communication of what is beyond the ordinary. A godsend suggests something like a chink or crack through which something is revealed - a kind of gap, or permeability, a porosity to a light that comes from a source beyond. In that gifted porosity is there an opening (...)
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    Hegel’s God, Transcendence, and the Counterfeit Double.William Desmond - 2005 - The Owl of Minerva 36 (2):91-110.
    This article explains some of the major intentions the author had in writing the book Hegel’s God: A Counterfeit Double? It especially focuses on the question of transcendence, both with respect to the question of God as such, as well as Hegel’s option for a version of holistic immanence. It spells out some of the details of the book itself, and explains the guiding thread of the counterfeit double. The texts of Hegel may be saturated with the word “God,” but (...)
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    Is There Metaphysics after Critique?William Desmond - 2005 - International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (2):221-241.
    This paper offers two related refl ections on the questions of metaphysics after critique. The first is an analysis of the project of critique since Kant and its influence on the disputed status of metaphysics. It explores the theoretical and practical aspects of this by claiming that an understanding of thinking as negativity, whether in Hegelian form as determinate negation or in more radical deconstructive forms, lies at the heart of this disputed status. Not least, the relation of philosophy to (...)
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  21. Art and the Absolute.William Desmond - 1988 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2 (1):57-62.
     
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    Can Philosophy Laugh at Itself?William Desmond - 1989 - The Owl of Minerva 20 (2):131-149.
    Can philosophy laugh at itself? Like Houdini I weigh myself down with chains, the harder to test my virtuosity as an escape artist. So I take the heaviest burden on myself: Hegel. If any philosopher was serious, Hegel was. But - to parody Nietzsche - here is the heaviest thought: Hegel had a sense of humor. My reader will think that already I am joking, but please do not laugh. I am deadly serious: Hegel had a sense of humor. I (...)
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  23. Desire, Dialectic and Otherness: An Essay on Origins.William Desmond - 1987 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 27 (1):127-128.
     
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    God, ethos, ways.William Desmond - 1999 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 45 (1):13-30.
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    Gothic Hegel.William Desmond - 1999 - The Owl of Minerva 30 (2):237-252.
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    Beyond Godlessness.William Desmond - 2008 - In God and the Between. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 31–45.
    This chapter contains section titled: The Angel of Death, Being as Gift God and Posthumous Mind Out of Nothing: Porosity and the Urgency of Ultimacy Redoubled Beginning: Elemental Yes Idiotic Rebirth Aesthetic Recharging Erotic Outreaching Agapeic Resurrection.
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  27. Plato's Philosophical Art and the Identification of the Sophist.William Desmond - 1979 - Filosofia Oggi 2 (4):393-403.
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    God(s) Many and One: On Polytheism and Monotheism.William Desmond - 2008 - In God and the Between. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 171–190.
    This chapter contains section titled: Gods Religious Imagination and Porosity to Archaic Manifestation Sacred Namings and the Hyperboles of Being Naming the Agapeic God From Polytheism to Monotheism Metaxological Monotheism The Praise of Paganism.
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  29. Response to Stephen Houlgate.William Desmond - 2005 - The Owl of Minerva 36 (2):175-188.
    This is a response to issues raised by Stephen Houlgate in his article “Hegel, Desmond, and the Problem of God’s Transcendence,” dealing with Hegel’s God: A Counterfeit Double? The response focuses especially on the hermeneutical finesse we need in reading Hegel on religion, on the nature of “release” in Hegel, on the need for an agapeic God, and on the differences between Hegel’s speculative philosophy and Desmond’s metaxological approach to the practice of philosophy.
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    Educating for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty.Mona Abousenna, Alexander Ageev, Alexander Chumakov, William Desmond, Dr Ovadia Ezra, Eduard Girusov, Charles L. Glenn, Bradley Googins, Sidney Griffith, Elmer Hankiss, Vittorio Hosle, Elena Karpuhina, Steven Katz, Nur Kirabiev, Vladislav Lektorsky, Igor Lukes, Alexei Malashenko, Katherine Marshall, Alan Olson, James Post, Sheila Puffer, Kurt Salamun, John Silbur, David Steiner, Viachaslav Stepin, Bassam Tibi, Elena Trubina, Irina Tuuli, Mourad Wahba & Gregory Walters (eds.) - 2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional, and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become magnified, entrenched, and the cause of bloody conflict. Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative efforts on behalf of peace. The term paideia, drawn from Greek philosophy, has to do with (...)
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    Art as "Aesthetic" and as "Religious" in Hegel's Philosophy of Absolute Spirit.William Desmond - 1987 - Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 8:170-196.
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    Astonishment and science: engagements with William Desmond.William Desmond & Paul G. Tyson (eds.) - 2022 - Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books.
    Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity, perplexity, and astonishment. In this volume, philosopher William (...)
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    Art and the impossible burden of transcendence: The end of art and the task of metaphysics.William Desmond - 2000 - Hegel-Jahrbuch 2 (1):75-91.
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    Art and the Absolute Revisited.William Desmond - 2000 - Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 14:1-12.
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    Art, Philosophy and Concreteness in Hegel.William Desmond - 1985 - The Owl of Minerva 16 (2):131-146.
    It is a philosophical commonplace to juxtapose logic and imagination, reason and sensibility, the concept and intuition, philosophy itself and art. Frequently these pairs are thought of as opposites, one mediated through abstract reflection, the other a more intimate participant in the given of concrete existence. Philosophy does not always come off uncriticized in this opposition. Its reflective, analytical impulse is often thought to abstract us, remove us from the concretely real. Art, by contrast, it is said, serves to keep (...)
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    Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment: A Discussion with Charles L. Griswold.William Desmond - 2000 - Ethical Perspectives 7 (1):52-72.
    William Desmond: It is a pleasure to welcome Professor Charles Griswold today. I thank him for his willingness to present us with an overview of his new book Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment , and to participate in a discussion. Professor Griswold is professor of philosophy at Boston University, where he is also the chair of the philosophy department. His new work on Adam Smith might seem like something of a departure from the concerns of many of his (...)
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    Autonomia Turannos.William Desmond - 1998 - Ethical Perspectives 5 (4):233-253.
    In modernity generally substantive conceptions of the good have been pervasively criticized, and not least in our own time. All values seem open to critique or question. Indeed, the claim is that they must be open to such critique if they are to pass muster — especially if we claim to live in an accountable, transparent, and democratic manner. Nevertheless, there seems to be one value that is accepted as basic in a widespread way. This is the value of freedom. (...)
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    Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics as a Cultural Presence.William Desmond & Joseph Grange (eds.) - 2000 - State University of New York Press.
    Diverse voices explore the possibility of doing metaphysics in light of contemporary critiques.
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    Being between: conditions of Irish thought.William Desmond - 2008 - Galway: Centre for Irish Studies.
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    Beyond conflict and reduction: between philosophy, science, and religion.William Desmond, John Steffen & Koen Decoster (eds.) - 2001 - Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.
    INTRODUCTION Much attention has been devoted to the different tensions and conflicts between science and religion in the modern age. ...
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  41. Beyond Conflict and Reduction. Between Philosophy, Science and Religion.William Desmond, John Steffen & Koen Decoster - 2002 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (4):804-805.
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    Being, Determination, and Dialectic: On the Sources of Metaphysical Thinking.William Desmond - 1995 - Review of Metaphysics 48 (4):731 - 769.
    Often we attribute the sources of this contested place to Hume, and in a more qualified way to Kant. By contrast, Hegel is frequently presented as embodying a post-critical resurgence of metaphysics, a recrudescence of what seemed to have been safely stowed in its grave. True, one finds interpretations in which Hegel as metaphysician is subordinated to Hegel the true heir of the Kantian project. Nevertheless, Hegel's continuity with the prior tradition is so massively evident, and not least in his (...)
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    Between Finitude and Infinity: Hegelian Reason and the Pascalian Heart.William Desmond - 1995 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (2):83 - 110.
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    11. Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics.William Desmond - 2020 - In Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America. University of Toronto Press. pp. 264-288.
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  45. Consecrated Thought.William Desmond - 2005 - Journal of Philosophy and Scripture 2 (2).
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    Desire, dialectic, and otherness: an essay on origins.William Desmond - 2014 - Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books.
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    Doing Justice and the Practice of Philosophy.William Desmond - 2005 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79:41-59.
    There is a sense of doing justice prior to the juxtaposition of theory and practice, accounting for an ontological vulnerability prior to both social power andsocial vulnerability. Justice in the sense of “being true” involves fidelity to truth that we neither possess nor construct, preceding all efforts to enact justice. The charge to be just precedes any just act. There is a “patience of being,” or a receiving of being before acting, which we must then actively take up. All this (...)
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    (1 other version)Dream Monologues and Autonomy.William Desmond - 1998 - Ethical Perspectives 5 (4):305-321.
    The writer of the below thought he would do something clever and out of the way. I tried to dissuade him, but without success. I told him that readers would prefer a more sober scholarly approach. I tried to appeal to his other work and his systematic proclivities. Why not try like Schelling to produce a system of freedom? He looked at me queerly. I was a bit taken aback when he burst out laughing in my face, and blurted out: (...)
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    Die Potentiale des Ethischen. Über die Quellen des Gutseins.William Desmond - 2018 - Zeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie 1 (1):127-141.
    ZusammenfassungEs ist eine gängige Praxis ethischer Reflexion, zwischen verschiedenen Systemen moralischer Werte zu unterscheiden und dann die einen gegen die anderen auszuspielen. Im Text wird eine Reflexionsform vorgestellt, die gewissermaßen einen ‚Schritt zurück‘ von derartigen vordergründigen Wertsystemen tritt und stattdessen die Quellen des Ethischen betrachtet, Quellen, die wir in unserer alltäglichen ethischen Praxis oft genug nicht beachten oder für selbstverständlich halten. Zu diesen Quellen oder Potentialen des Ethischen zähle ich das, was ich als das Idiotische, das Ästhetische, das Dianoetische, das (...)
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  50. Despoiling the egyptians gently : Merold Westphal and Hegel.William Desmond - 2009 - In B. Keith Putt (ed.), Gazing through a prism darkly: reflections on Merold Westphal's hermeneutical epistemology. New York: Fordham University Press.
     
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