The intimate strangeness of being : metaphysics after dialectic / William Desmond.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1. Metaphysics and the equivocities of dialectic. Being, determination, and dialectic : on the sources of metaphysical thinking -- Thinking on the double : the equivocities of dialectic -- Surplus immediacy, metaphysical thinking, and the defect(ion) of Hegel's concept -- Part 2. Metaphysics in the wake of dialectic. Is there metaphysics after critique? -- Metaphysics and the intimate strangeness of being : neither deconstruction nor reconstruction -- Part 3. Metaphysics beyond dialectic. Metaxological metaphysics and the equivocity of the everyday : between everydayness and the edge of eschatology -- Pluralism, truthfulness, and the patience of being -- The confidence of thought : between belief and metaphysics -- Analogy, dialectic, and divine transcendence : between St. Thomas and Hegel -- Ways of wondering : beyond the barbarism of reflection.

This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being. There is a mysterious strangeness to being at all, and yet there is also something intimate. Without the intimacy, argues William Desmond, we become strangers in being; without the mystery, we take being for granted. The book locates the origin of metaphysics' contested place in recessed equivocations in Kantian critique and Hegelian dialectic, equivocations that keep from view the more original sources of metaphysical thinking. It takes issue with contemporary claims about the "overcoming of metaphysics" associated with Heidegger, the "deconstruction of metaphysics" associated with Derrida, as well as with claims that a new "post-metaphysical thinking" is necessary. The book begins with an exploration of the status of metaphysics in light of equivocations in Hegelian dialectic. It then offers an assessment of metaphysics in light of critique and deconstruction. Finally, it proposes an affirmative rethinking of the constant perplexities of being in terms of a metaxological metaphysics. This metaphysics involves a thinking of the between (metaxu) that characterizes Desmond's singular approach. Addressing the problematic state of metaphysics in recent centuries, this metaxological metaphysics tries to be true to both the strange mystery and the intimacy, to be faithful to the constant perplexities of being, and to recuperate appreciatively some of the rich resources of the longer philosophical tradition.

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