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

By:

Desmond, William, 1951- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231543002
023154300X

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intimate universal.DDC classification:

111/.2 23

LOC classification:

B105.U5 D47 2016eb

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Contents:

Introduction : 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.

Summary: William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.