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

1. Introduction

Part 1: Being, Knowing, and Intimacy

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

Part 2: Absolute Being and Talking God

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

Part 3: Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness

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 Auweele12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales



Part 4: On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism

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

Part 5: Creation, Embodied Being and Beauty

16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney17. 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

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).