Beyond Hegel and dialectic
Subtitle: speculation, cult, and comedy
By: William Desmond.
Series: SUNY series in Hegelian studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Description: This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. He covers the interpretation of Hegelian speculation in terms of the metataxological notion of being and the concept of philosophy that Desmond has developed in two previous works, Philosophy and Its Others, and Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness. Though Hegel is Desmond's primary interlocutor, there are references to Aristophanes, Socrates, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida. Desmond is concerned with the limits of philosophy. The themes of the essays include speculation and historicism, speculation and cult, speculation and representation, evil and dialectic, logos and the comedy of failure. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-361) and index.