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Between System and Poetics : William Desmond and Philosophy After Dialectic
Overview
This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. His thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he calls the 'between'. Rooted in Plato and Augustine, and advancing through a confrontation with Hegel and Nietzsche, Desmond rejects facile scepticism and wins through to a strikingly original and powerfully searching articulation of the human. The present volume contains essays on Desmond's work both by emerging scholars and by well-established thinkers. It also contains a specially written essay on the practices of philosophy by Desmond himself.
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- ISBN-13: 9780754652069
- ISBN-10: 0754652068
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: December 2006
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.38 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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