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. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 520
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Publication Date:
29 November 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231178761
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Process
A marvelously articulated work with a consummately refined language of its own for conceiving the perennial issues of philosophy in fresh and compelling terms.
— William Franke, Vanderbilt University and University of Macao
William Desmond is professor of philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and David R. Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: For and Against the Universal—Doing Justice
Part I: The Intimate Universal—Exoteric Reflections: Religion
1. Religion and the Intimate Universal: Neither Cosmopolis nor Ghetto
2. Art and the Intimate Universal: Neither Imitation nor Self-Creation
3. Philosophy and the Intimate Universal: Neither Theory nor Practice
4. Politics and the Intimate Universal: Neither Servility nor Sovereignty
Part II: The Intimate Universal—Systematic Thoughts: From the Idiotic to the Agapeic
5. The Idiotics of the Intimate Universal
6. The Aesthetics of the Intimate Universal
7. The Erotics of the Intimate Universal
8. The Agapeics of the Intimate Universal
Glossary
Notes
Index
