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

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Dennis Vanden Auweele)....Pages 1-12 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Number and the Between (John Milbank)....Pages 15-44 True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics (D. C. Schindler)....Pages 45-57 Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap Between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics (Daniel Minch)....Pages 59-76 Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy (Sandra Lehmann)....Pages 77-91 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 The Metaxology of the Divine Names (Brendan Thomas Sammon)....Pages 95-111 Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between (Mark F. Novak)....Pages 113-128 Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological (Patrick Ryan Cooper)....Pages 129-148 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought (Cyril O’Regan)....Pages 151-176 Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being (Roberto Dell’Oro)....Pages 177-193 Silence, Excess, and Autonomy (Dennis Vanden Auweele)....Pages 195-207 Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of Its Eclipse: William Desmond Contra Giorgio Agamben (Philip John Paul Gonzales)....Pages 209-225 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God (Sander Griffioen)....Pages 229-242 Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology (Josephien van Kessel)....Pages 243-256 Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies (Philip A. Gottschalk)....Pages 257-267 Front Matter ....Pages 269-269 The Gift of Creation (Richard Kearney)....Pages 271-284 On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu (Renée Köhler-Ryan)....Pages 285-301 Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between (Alexandra Romanyshyn)....Pages 303-315 Responding Metaxologically (William Desmond)....Pages 317-336 Back Matter ....Pages 337-343