The voiding of being : the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity / William Desmond
- Author
- Desmond, William, 1951-
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2020]
- Physical Description
- xi, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- The Voiding of Being : On the Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity -- Analogy and the Fate of Reason -- The Dearth of Astonishment : On Curiosity, Scientism, and Thinking as Negativity -- Are We All Scholastics Now? On Analytic, Dialectical, and Transdialectical Thinking -- Between System and Poetics : On the Practices of Philosophy -- Saturated Phenomena and the Hyperboles of Being : On Marion's Postmetaphysical Thought -- Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics -- Flux-Gibberish : For and against Heraclitus.
- Summary
- "The author amplifies important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, exploring diverse aspects of current skepticism and offering a defense in terms of his metaxological metaphysics. Along the way he engages both the long tradition and more modern writers, such as Heidegger and Marion"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780813232485 hardcover
0813232481 hardcover - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Terms of Use and Reproduction
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
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