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  • Wayward and Homebound

    Irish Betweenings, Philosophical Thought, and Writing

    by William Desmond ...
    Offers an expansion of Desmond's explorations in the philosophy of the between by considering in a fresh way the distinctive features of Irish thought, with reference to religion, culture, and poetry.In Wayward and Homebound, William Desmond explores the philosophy of the between in connection with traditions of Irish thought and culture, especially poetry, drawing upon the metaxological ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Godsends

    From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation

    by William Desmond ...
    Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology.For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between ... Read more

    $46.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The William Desmond Reader

    by William Desmond ...
    Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his mark on the philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. The William Desmond Reader provides for the first time in a single book a point of entry into his ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness

    An Essay on Origins, Second Edition

    by William Desmond ...
    Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive and positive approach to the problem of difference and otherness. He systematically explores the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intimate Universal

    The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics

    by William Desmond ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Cynics

    by William Desmond ...
    Series series Ancient Philosophies
    Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of Christianity and the very end of pagan antiquity. In every age down to the present, its ideals of radical ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Hegel's God

    A Counterfeit Double?

    by William Desmond ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology
    Hegel is widely regarded as one of the major thinkers of the modern era, if not the entire tradition of philosophy. Hegel, like many philosophers, took seriously traditional philosophical perplexities about God, but unlike many modern philosophers he claimed to take the specific characteristic of Christianity into account in his philosophizing. This book presents a new examination, interpretation ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being

    On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious

    by William Desmond ...
    Series Book 30 - Veritas
    This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weighted Inequalities Involving P-quasiconcave Operators

    by William Desmond Evans, Amiran Gogatishvili, Bohumir Opic ...
    Some problems in mathematical analysis (e.g., in theory of function spaces, in approximation theory or in interpolation theory) lead to the investigation of weighted inequalities on certain classes of quasiconcave functions on the interval I=(a,b) ∊ R. In this book we analyse the class Qρ(I) of ρ-quasiconcave functions in a complete generality in order to establish results needed for a ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • DBT SKILLS TRAINING MANUAL

    "Mastering Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Essential Life Skills"

    by Desmond Williams ...
    Are You Ready to Transform Your Life? If YES This Book Is For YouAre you struggling with overwhelming emotions, turbulent relationships, or self-destructive behaviors? Do you find it challenging to cope with life's ups and downs? If so, "DBT Skills Training Manual: Mastering Dialectical Behavior Therapy" is the solution you've been looking for.In this compre... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unmasking Woke Culture

    The Dangers of Cancel Culture, BLM Hypocrisy, and How to Fight Back

    by Desmond Williams ...
    Unmasking Woke Culture: The Dangers of Cancel Culture, BLM Hypocrisy, and How to Fight BackExplore a critical examination of how certain modern social movements and cultural trends influence public debate, free expression, and political discourse. This book presents a perspective on how some forms of activism may shift from promoting social awareness toward encouraging groupthink, public shaming, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olivia in India (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Lyrical travel narrative through Indian traditions and vivid landscapes, weaving historical context with a protagonist's transformative journey

    by O. Douglas, Desmond Everly, William Andrews ...
    Olivia in India is a sprightly epistolary novel in which a young Scottish traveler reports, with lucid wit and tact, on the textures of British India—railway journeys and hill-stations, verandah gossip and bazaar pageants, dust-storms and kindnesses. The letters accumulate into a novel of manners whose gentle satire never masks a steady moral curiosity. Written in the Edwardian twilight, it ... Read more

    $1.99 USD