William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics

Dennis Vanden Auweele is a postdoctoral researcher (FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism (2017) and Pessimism in Kant’s Ethics and Rational Religion (forthcoming).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Number and the Between, by John Milbank.- 3. True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics, by D.C. Schindler.- 4.  Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, by Daniel Minch.- 5.  Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy, by Sandra Lehmann.- 6. The Metaxology of the Divine Names, by Brendan Thomas Sammon.- 7. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between, by Mark F. Novak.- 8. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological, by Patrick Ryan Cooper.- 9. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought, by Cyril O’Regan.- 10. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being, by Roberto Dell’Oro.- 11. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy, by Dennis Vanden Auweele.- 12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales.- 13.The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God, by Sander Griffioen.- 14. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology, by Josephien van Kessel.- 15. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies, by Philip A. Gottschalk.- 16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney.- 17. On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu, by Renée Kohler-Ryan.- 18. Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between, by Alexandra Romanyshyn.- 19. Responding Metaxologically, by William Desmond.