![]() And in hindsight, one can see in this still amazingly fresh work the seeds of Desmond's great trilogy in metaphysics, which has made him one of the essential philosophers of his generation." -Cyril O. Item Length: Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers. It exhibited critical mastery of the entire philosophical tradition and a rare ability both to sift through it and to penetrate to its original and originating core. Binding: Book Title: Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness : an Essay ON Origins, Second Edition. Desmond's book initiates just such a badly needed conversation with his readers." -Alasdair MacIntyre, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame "At the time of its publication over twenty years ago Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness represented the appearance of a truly important and original philosophical voice. "What splendid news that William Desmond's admirable, insightful, engaging, and-because of its Hegelian involvements-exasperating book is republished! It invites reflection on those conversations with others in which we become other to ourselves. This second edition contains a substantial new preface and an afterword to each chapter in which Desmond reflects on the material from the standpoint of his current thinking. This book is a remarkable introduction to Desmond's metaxological philosophy, prefiguring many of the ideas with which his later thought is associated. Finally, Desmond brings this metaxological understanding to bear on the metaphysical question of the ultimate origin. In a wide-ranging yet unified discussion, Desmond tackles such issues as the nature of the self, the ambiguous restlessness and inherent power of being revealed by human desire, desire's relation to transcendence, its openness to otherness in agapeic good will and in relation to the sublime as an aesthetic infinitude. Granting the positive power of dialectic, Desmond offers his first articulation of a further philosophical possibility-what he terms the Metaxological-a discourse of the "between," a discourse doing justice to desire's search for wholeness without any truncating of its radical openness to otherness. Unlike many recent critics of Hegel, he argues that we must preserve what is genuine in dialectic. ![]() He faces the difficulties bequeathed to Continental thought by Hegelian dialectic and its tendency to subordinate difference to identity, whether appropriately or not. He systematically explores the question of dialectic and otherness by analyzing how human desire inevitably seeks immanent wholeness in a manner that opens it to irreducible otherness. 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. ![]() But if so, one has to understand the wrongness of such errors how is it that they are erroneous if they (somehow) contain the truth? At the end of this essay, a tentative answer to this question is given.Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. This would suggest that truth is born out of errors. However, to overcome this still purely negative judgement of errors, two processes are examined in which mistakes are best regarded as developmental steps, that is, steps not only meaningful in their own right (as containing some truth), but also as necessary preconditions for further progress. This is done in the theory of communicative action, which adds to our knowledge of errors the notion of communicative mistakes: mistakes as obstacles for sincere communication. ![]() In order to gain a deeper understanding of mistakes (and to understand a deeper kind of mistake), it is argued that communicative aspects have to be taken into account. Dresser, The philosophy of the spirit: A study of the spiritual nature. At first it is argued that strictly falsifiable knowledge is concerned with simple (instrumental) mistakes only, and thus is incapable of understanding more complex errors (and truths). Supplementary essay: The element of irrationality in the Hegelian dialectic. This essay attempts to distinguish and discuss the importance and limitations of different ways of being wrong. ![]()
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