The voiding of being : the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity /

Desmond, William, 1951-

The voiding of being : the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity / William Desmond. - Washington : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) - Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; volume 61 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Voiding of Being: On the Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity -- Analogy and the Fate of Reason -- The Dearth of Astonishment: On Curiosity, Scientism, and Thinking as Negativity -- Are We All Scholastics Now? On Analytic, Dialectical, and Transdialectical Thinking -- Between System and Poetics: On the Practices of Philosophy -- Saturated Phenomena and the Hyperboles of Being: On Marion's Postmetaphysical Thought -- Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics -- Flux-Gibberish: For and against Heraclitus.

"The author amplifies important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, exploring diverse aspects of current skepticism and offering a defense in terms of his metaxological metaphysics. Along the way he engages both the long tradition and more modern writers, such as Heidegger and Marion"--



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