Being and the Between

<p><b>The culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics</b></p><p>As Plato told us long ago the human being is neither a god nor a beast but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between. How do we philosophize in between? W hat is the being of the between? This book answers the question in the most comprehensive terms possible. It offers an original understanding of metaphysical thinking and the fundamental senses of being namely the univocal equivocal dialectical and metaxological senses.</p><p>Part I of Being and the Between focuses on the nature of metaphysics the question of being in terms of the above fourfold sense. Part II develops a metaphysics of being as between relative to our basic perplexities concerning origin creation things intelligibilities selves communities being true being good. The book calls for a generous hermeneutical rethinking of the philosophical tradition. Major figures and positions are reinterpreted. Desmond addresses the issue common since Hegel endemic since Heidegger concerning the end of metaphysics. Granting a proper understanding of the between Desmond believes that we need a resurrection of metaphysics where the old perplexities ever new stand before us again.</p>