Description
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
