Between System and Poetics

This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition William Desmond. His thought is a new post-modern way of articulating what he calls the ’between’. Rooted in Plato and Augustine and advancing through a confrontation with Hegel and Nietzsche Desmond rejects facile scepticism and wins through to a strikingly original and powerfully searching articulation of the human. The present volume contains essays on Desmond’s work both by emerging scholars and by well-established thinkers. It also contains a specially written essay on the practices of philosophy by Desmond himself.