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"""This is a radiant book, as beautiful as it is profound. Indeed--as Desmond consistently demonstrates in all his work, but here with a special power--the profoundest philosophical reflection must necessarily be the most beautiful."" --David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study ""In this profound and searching book, Desmond shows once again that he is a master at 'dancing lightly in the service of thought' (Kierkegaard). He does not hesitate to draw on everything that might lend itself--philosophy, poetry, drama, art, film, music, nature, and major and minor experiences of life--to make manifest the brilliant light of beauty, without for all that simply dispelling its mysterious darkness."" --D.C. Schindler, author of Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth."

"""This is a radiant book, as beautiful as it is profound. Indeed--as Desmond consistently demonstrates in all his work, but here with a special power--the profoundest philosophical reflection must necessarily be the most beautiful."" --David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study ""In this profound and searching book, Desmond shows once again that he is a master at 'dancing lightly in the service of thought' (Kierkegaard). He does not hesitate to draw on everything that might lend itself--philosophy, poetry, drama, art, film, music, nature, and major and minor experiences of life--to make manifest the brilliant light of beauty, without for all that simply dispelling its mysterious darkness."" --D.C. Schindler, author of Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth."

This is a radiant book, as beautiful as it is profound. Indeed--as Desmond consistently demonstrates in all his work, but here with a special power--the profoundest philosophical reflection must necessarily be the most beautiful. --David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study In this profound and searching book, Desmond shows once again that he is a master at 'dancing lightly in the service of thought' (Kierkegaard). He does not hesitate to draw on everything that might lend itself--philosophy, poetry, drama, art, film, music, nature, and major and minor experiences of life--to make manifest the brilliant light of beauty, without for all that simply dispelling its mysterious darkness. --D.C. Schindler, author of Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.

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William Desmond is David Cook Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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