The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics

William Desmond

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

The Intimate Universal

The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics

William Desmond

In the series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

https://doi.org/10.7312/desm17876

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About this book

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. By observing their permeable relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

Author / Editor information

William Desmond is professor of philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and David R. Cook Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University.

Reviews

John Milbank, University of Nottingham:
There is today no more important philosophical project being undertaken than that of William Desmond's poetic, unshirkingly apposite and yet unpretentious attempt to rethink a metaphysics of analogy and mediation. This book represents another chapter in its unfolding.

John D. Caputo, Emeritus Professor, Syracuse University and Villanova University:
How can something singular, in all the depths of its singularity, communicate with the universal, with the result that the singular is not contracted to itself and the universal is not a free floating abstraction? William Desmond explores this basic question in all its dimensions in the steady, systematic and meticulous manner we have come to expect from him in this not to be missed new volume.

Christopher Ben Simpson, Lincoln Christian University:
In this excellent and interesting work, Desmond is expanding and refining his already considerable contribution to contemporary continental philosophy in a metaphysical register.

Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame:
Desmond combines the virtues of scope, systematic rigor, and highly individual manner of perception and expression.

William Franke, Vanderbilt University and University of Macao:
A marvelously articulated work with a consummately refined language of its own for conceiving the perennial issues of philosophy in fresh and compelling terms.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: For and Against the Universal— Doing Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: The Intimate Universal—Exoteric Reflections: Religion, Art, Philosophy, Politics
1. Religion and the Intimate Universal: Neither Cosmopolis nor Ghetto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Art and the Intimate Universal: Neither Imitation nor Self-Creation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
3. Philosophy and the Intimate Universal: Neither Theory nor Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
4. Politics and the Intimate Universal: Neither Servility nor Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
II: The Intimate Universal—Systematic Thoughts: From the Idiotic to the Agapeic
5. The Idiotics of the Intimate Universal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
6. The Aesthetics of the Intimate Universal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
7. The Erotics of the Intimate Universal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
8. The Agapeics of the Intimate Universal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 520

eBook

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780231543002