William Desmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 461272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Desmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Desmond |
| SIGNATURE | DESMOND W |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Beholding From”: Thoughts Occasioned by Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty
Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty is a very impressive work. It is impressive in its extraordinary range of considerations, extending from Plato to Rilke. It is also impressive in the guiding philosophical orientation that shapes its addressing a whole range of thinkers and themes. It is meticulous in the reading of these thinkers and themes. The work is very well presented as a unified volume, with marvelously reproduced paintings and ill…
Is There a Sabbath for Thought: Between Religion and Philosophy
Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences 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 philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, pove…
On Evil and Political Theology
status: Published
Cynics
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins (2nd Edition)
The Metaphysics of Modernity
This chapter suggests that metaphysics in modernity has focused on the determinability of being, and with bringing being from a perplexing and equivocal indeterminacy towards more and more univocal determination. We look to overtake conceptually the original overdeterminacy, and to that degree the project is also the overcoming of metaphysical astonishment. To this end we reconfigure the given ethos of being in a variety of univocal figurations. …
The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics After Dialectic
Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity
One of the most celebrated of Plato’s ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers. In a perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power. In antiquity, who were or aspired to be philosopher-kings? What was their understanding of wisdom and the limits of knowledge? What influence have they had on periods beyond antiquity? This …
Pougne-Hérisson et le patrimoine mondial
L'auteur, sur un mode humoristique, pose la question du bien-fondé du classement au Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO. Il fait remarquer que si le classement de certains sites peut paraître évident et ne fait pas débat, la difficulté viendra quand se posera la question du classement des sites moins prestigieux : où mettra-t-on la limite ? Qui en décidera ? Vu les intérêts économiques en jeu, on peut comprendre que la question est légitime. Il conclu…
Low Philosophy
Philosophy in an Aristotelian vein speaks a language almost of its own making, with unusual words such as substance, accident, matter, form, actuality, potentiality, entelechy, and the like. The ideal here seems to be that philosophy speaks directly to the mortal devotee, who loses himself in that higher music. And yet there are other dimensions to ancient thinkers, even the systematic ones, which sit uneasily with such a high philosophy. This ar…
Cynics
Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity and the end of pagan antiquity. In every age down to the present, its ideals of radical simplicity and freedom have alternately inspired and disturbe…
Lessons of Fear: A Reading of Thucydides
Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness. Maria Antonaccio , William Schweiker
Prix Cardinal Mercier 1995
Magnard Pierre, Aubert Roger, Desmond William. Prix Cardinal Mercier 1995. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 96, n°4, 1998. pp. 765-777
Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy
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. Th…
Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Beauty and Truth: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Beauty and Truth: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics
Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult, and Comedy
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. Th…
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness. Maria Antonaccio , William Schweiker
Prix Cardinal Mercier 1995
Magnard Pierre, Aubert Roger, Desmond William. Prix Cardinal Mercier 1995. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 96, n°4, 1998. pp. 765-777
Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art
Lessons of Fear: A Reading of Thucydides
Cynics
Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity and the end of pagan antiquity. In every age down to the present, its ideals of radical simplicity and freedom have alternately inspired and disturbe…
Low Philosophy
Philosophy in an Aristotelian vein speaks a language almost of its own making, with unusual words such as substance, accident, matter, form, actuality, potentiality, entelechy, and the like. The ideal here seems to be that philosophy speaks directly to the mortal devotee, who loses himself in that higher music. And yet there are other dimensions to ancient thinkers, even the systematic ones, which sit uneasily with such a high philosophy. This ar…
Pougne-Hérisson et le patrimoine mondial
L'auteur, sur un mode humoristique, pose la question du bien-fondé du classement au Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO. Il fait remarquer que si le classement de certains sites peut paraître évident et ne fait pas débat, la difficulté viendra quand se posera la question du classement des sites moins prestigieux : où mettra-t-on la limite ? Qui en décidera ? Vu les intérêts économiques en jeu, on peut comprendre que la question est légitime. Il conclu…
Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity
One of the most celebrated of Plato’s ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers. In a perfect state, therefore, philosophic wisdom should be wedded to political power. In antiquity, who were or aspired to be philosopher-kings? What was their understanding of wisdom and the limits of knowledge? What influence have they had on periods beyond antiquity? This …
The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics After Dialectic
The Metaphysics of Modernity
This chapter suggests that metaphysics in modernity has focused on the determinability of being, and with bringing being from a perplexing and equivocal indeterminacy towards more and more univocal determination. We look to overtake conceptually the original overdeterminacy, and to that degree the project is also the overcoming of metaphysical astonishment. To this end we reconfigure the given ethos of being in a variety of univocal figurations. …
Cynics
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins (2nd Edition)
On Evil and Political Theology
status: Published
Is There a Sabbath for Thought: Between Religion and Philosophy
Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences 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 philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, pove…
“Beholding From”: Thoughts Occasioned by Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty
Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty is a very impressive work. It is impressive in its extraordinary range of considerations, extending from Plato to Rilke. It is also impressive in the guiding philosophical orientation that shapes its addressing a whole range of thinkers and themes. It is meticulous in the reading of these thinkers and themes. The work is very well presented as a unified volume, with marvelously reproduced paintings and ill…
Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 works) · Hegelianism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)