Wayward and Homebound

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>In <i>Wayward and Homebound</i> William Desmond explores the philosophy of the between in connection with traditions of Irish thought and culture especially poetry drawing upon the metaxological philosophy developed most systematically in the award-winning <i>Being and the Between</i> <i>Ethics and the Between</i><i> </i>and God and the Between. It begins with a broad overview of this notion in connection with Irish thinking and culture by contrast with French German and Greek variations of the notion. It touches on figures like John Scotus Eriugena John Toland George Berkeley and Edmund Burke as well as major poets and writers like Swift Yeats Joyce and Beckett. The paradoxical twinning of being at home and not being at home and the relation of thought and exile in an Irish as well as more cosmopolitan setting are explored. Desmond presents a synopsis of metaxological philosophy and how it contributes to aesthetics ethics religion and metaphysics. In an extended exploration of Irish betweenings reflections are offered that move from nature to culture with four sequences of reflections on islanding naturing homing and wording. Additional concerns come to light such as insular thinking the ecology of land and sea religion postcolonialsm and the dialogue of poet and philosopher.</p>