The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics After Dialectic

by William Desmond

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813219604
• ISBN13: 9780813219608
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"