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Is There a Sabbath for Thought?: Between Religion and Philosophy
William Desmond
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Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he attempts to look ... Read more
Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he attempts to look ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823223732
SKU
V9780823223732
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About William Desmond
William Desmond teaches at the Center for Metaphysics at the Higher Institute, the University of Leuven. He is the author of Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins and Bein and the Between.
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