Title: The voiding of being : the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity /
Authors: Desmond, William, 1951-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Metaphysics; Metaphysics
Abstract: "The author amplifies important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, exploring diverse aspects of current skepticism and offering a defense in terms of his metaxological metaphysics. Along the way he engages both the long tradition and more modern writers, such as Heidegger and Marion"--
Contents: The Voiding of Being: On the Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity -- Analogy and the Fate of Reason -- The Dearth of Astonishment: On Curiosity, Scientism, and Thinking as Negativity -- Are We All Scholastics Now? On Analytic, Dialectical, and Transdialectical Thinking -- Between System and Poetics: On the Practices of Philosophy -- Saturated Phenomena and the Hyperboles of Being: On Marion's Postmetaphysical Thought -- Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics -- Flux-Gibberish: For and against Heraclitus.