The intimate universal : the hidden porosity among religion, art, philosophy, and politics / William Desmond.

Author
Desmond, William, 1951- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Description
xii, 506 pages ; 24 cm.

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    "The concept of the universal has challenged philosophy throughout its history. In The Intimate Universal, William Desmond cuts through its myriad definitions to arrive at a plurivocal alternative that better captures what it means to be human. He identifies religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestation of what he calls and 'intimate universality' that illuminates individual and social being. These categories are also surprisingly permeable, and by observing their interrelationships he captures signs of a clandestine conversation that he believes will transform our understanding of existence."-adapted from dust jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • For and against the universal: doing justice
    • Religion and the intimate universal: neither cosmopolis nor ghetto
    • Art and the intitmate universal: neither imitation nor self-creation
    • Philosophy and the intimate universal: neither theory nor practice
    • Politics and the intimate universal: neither servility nor sovereignty
    • The idiotics of the intimate universal
    • The aesthetics of the intimate universal
    • The erotics of the intimate universal
    • The agapeics of the intimate universal.
    ISBN
    • 9780231178761 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 023117876X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016024208
    OCLC
    950448503
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