Title: Philosophy and its others :
Authors: Desmond, William,
Date: 1990
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Physical description: xiii, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Philosophy and its others: on ways of being philosophical -- Being aesthetic -- The immediacy of the aesthetic -- Aesthetic self-mediation -- Art and the aesthetic middle -- Loss of the aesthetic middle -- Art and metaxological otherness -- Being religious -- The immediacy of the sacred -- The mediation of the religious middle -- Metaxological openness to sacred otherness -- Religious inwardnessand the metaxological mediation of otherness -- The problematic religious middle -- Being ethical -- The immediacy of the ethical middle -- The self-mediation of the ethical middle -- Ethical inwardness and the middle -- The ethical intermediation of otherness -- Ethical community and recalcitrant otherness -- Being mindful: thought thinking its other -- First meditation: being mindful and logic -- Second meditation: being mindful and solitude -- Third meditation: being mindful and failure -- Being mindful: thought singing its other -- Song of golden being -- Songs of the elemental -- Songs of death and time -- Song of breakthrough -- Song of festive being -- Song of idiot wisdom.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aesthetics.; Ethics.; Logic.; Philosophy and religion.; Philosophy.