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Book SynopsisThis 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.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Being, Knowing, and Intimacy 2. Number and the Between, by John Milbank 3. True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics, by D.C. Schindler 4. Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, by Daniel Minch 5. Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy, by Sandra Lehmann Part 2: Absolute Being and Talking God 6. The Metaxology of the Divine Names, by Brendan Thomas Sammon 7. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between, by Mark F. Novak 8. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological, by Patrick Ryan Cooper Part 3: Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness 9. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought, by Cyril O’Regan 10. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being, by Roberto Dell’Oro 11. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy, by Dennis Vanden Auweele 12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales Part 4: On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism 13. The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God, by Sander Griffioen 14. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology, by Josephien van Kessel 15. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies, by Philip A. Gottschalk Part 5: Creation, Embodied Being and Beauty 16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney 17. On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu, by Renée Kohler-Ryan 18. Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between, by Alexandra Romanyshyn 19. Responding Metaxologically, by William Desmond

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Book SynopsisWhilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human. He ignores the dialectical process regarding sensitivity and sensuousness. And yet this is needed to make spiritual the relation between two human subjectivities differently determined by nature and to ensure the connection between body and spirit, nature and culture, private life and public life. This leads Hegel to fragment human subjectivity into yearnings for art, religion and philosophy thereby losing the unity attained through the cultivation of a longing for the absolute born of a desire for one another as different.Furthermore, our epoch of history is different from the Hegelian one and demands that we consider additional aspects of human subjectivity. This is essential if we are to overcome the nihilism inherent in our traditional metaphysics without falling into a worse nihilism due to a lack of rigorous thinking common today.The increasing power of technique and technologies as well as the task of building a world culture are two other challenges we face. Our sexuate belonging provides us with a universal living determination of our subjectivity – now a dual subjectivity - and also with a natural energy potential which allows us to use technical resources without becoming dependent on them.Table of Contents1. ​Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge2. The Desire to Be2.1 Giving Birth to our To Be2.2 Dwelling place opened by desire2.3 The gift of nothing2.4 Assuming non-being2.5 Sexuation as first logos2.6 Infinity arising from finiteness3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity3.1What mood allows meeting together?3.2Energy as sensitive mediation3.3 About universality of sensitive experience3.4 Here and now in intersubjective relations3.5 The qualitative truth of our being3.6 For me for you; for you for me4. The Absolute after which Desire Aspires4.1 Towards a non-pathological pathos4.2 From subordination to conjunction4.3 Self-affection and self-consciousness4.4 An absolute rooted in nature4.5 Light for which sensitivity longs4.6 Desire as transcendental intuition5. Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity5.1 From subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection5.2 Nature and freedom5.3 Crucial stage of the relation between two5.4 Sharing the fire5.5 Leading part of touch in fleshly dynamism5.6 Lost of differentiation due to sight5.7 Living individuation shaped by mutual desire6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Moral Relevance of Intentions in Shared Action.- Artificial Moral Agents: Corporations and AI.- Collective Agents as Moral Actors.- Collective Responsibility: Types and Modes of Application.- Responsibility Magnets and Shelters in Institutional Action.- Governing the Corpopolis: Modern Firms as Political Communities.- Aristotle on Knowing What We're Doing Together. An Interpretation of NE 1169b f.- Duties to Promote Just Institutions and the Citizenry as an Unorganized Group.- High stake coordination problems Do we need to reach beyond individual duties to solve them?.- From the Collective Obligations of Social Movements to the Individual Obligations of Their Members.- Social Movements and Ally-ship.- Collective Agency and Structural Epistemic Injustice.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgments.- Preamble.- Chapter 1. In search of a robust ontology.- Chapter 2. Entities.- Chapter 3. Activities and processes.- Chapter 4. Relations.- Chapter 5. Compound forms: collectives, spheres of activity, institutions, networks.- Chapter 6. Diversity of collectives.- Chapter 7. Generality, causalities, mechanisms.- Chapter 8. The emergence of collectives and spheres of activity.- Chapter 9. Space, time, societies.- Chapter 10. Social Matter Matters.- Index.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction (Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez, José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal).- 2 A Deflationary View of Ontology for Scientific Theories: A Neo-Carnapian Approach (Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez and José L. Falguera).-  3 Against Easy Realism (Tobias Alexius).- 4 From deflationism about truth to deflationism about abstract objects (Thomas Schindler).- 5 Easy Ontology Made Easier (Arvid Båve).- 6 Possible worlds and propositions (María de Ponte).- 7 Ontology and the algebraic conception of logic (Øystein Linnebo University of Oslo).- 8 Quinean Lightweight Objects (Concha Martínez-Vidal).- 9 Pragmatic Accounts of Justification, Epistemic Analyticity, and Other Routes to Easy Knowledge of Abstracta (Brett Topey).- 10 Objects, Thin Objects, Thin Access to Objects (Otávio Bueno).- 11 Deflating Fictionalism (Suki Finn).- 12 To be (thin) or not to be? Are thin objects fictional objects, or are fictional objects thin? (Mary Leng).- 13 Fictional Characters in Fictional Discourse (Manuel García-Carpintero).- 14 Ontology and Top-Down Metasemantics (Matti Eklund).- 15 Sortal Combat. Semantic Inferentialism and Ontological Deflationism About Abstract Objects (James Henry Collin).- 16 The implicature view of ontological commitments and denials (Jody Azzouni).- 17 The (Linguistic) Foundations of Arithmetic (Robert Schwartzkopff).- Index.

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