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Responding Metaxologically

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The themes of this book are very fitting for the preoccupations that have perplexed Desmond. The interplay between art, religion and philosophy (in a metaphysical register) has been at issue in all of his work. These three, in addition to our being ethical, are of significance for themselves and for philosophical reflection. Desmond holds that there is a metaxological intermediation among art, religion and philosophy rather than a dialectical sublation, as Hegel held. The metaxological intermediations of the spaces between art, ethics, religion and philosophy are plurivocal rather than univocal, or even dialectical. The plurivocity of these intermediations is richly evident in the diverse contributions of the different writers in this volume. Desmond responds metaxologically to their main concerns.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See especially AA and IU.

  2. 2.

    If AOO answers the intermediations of art and philosophy, and IST responds to the intermediations of religion and philosophy, The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being: On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018) addresses intermediations between the aesthetic and the religious.

  3. 3.

    Most fully in EB but also in PO.

  4. 4.

    See ‘Wording the Between’, in The William Desmond Reader. Ed. Christopher Simpson (Albany: SUNY Press, 2012), 195–227.

  5. 5.

    See GB Chap. 3 on the Gods of geometry.

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  • Desmond, William. 2012. Wording the Between. In The William Desmond Reader, ed. Christopher Simpson, 195–227. Albany: SUNY Press.

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  • ———. 2018. The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being: On the Threshold Between the Aesthetic and the Religious. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.

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  • Schindler, David. 2008. Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic. Washington: CUA Press.

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  1. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    William Desmond

  2. Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

    William Desmond

  3. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    William Desmond

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  1. KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

    Dennis Vanden Auweele

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Desmond, W. (2018). Responding Metaxologically. In: Vanden Auweele, D. (eds) William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98992-1_19

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