The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics After Dialectic

ISBN-13: 9780813219608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 352 str.

William Desmond

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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